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Why Are Bay State CEOs Paid So Highly?

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A company's stock price rises and falls, but CEO pay tends to only go in one direction: up.

Last year, DraftKings co-founder and CEO Jason Robins’s compensation was $238 million. This year, Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly’s number was $381 million — and his co-founder, Reshma Shetty, the company’s COO, had the exact same compensation.

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