Fwd: Those who have living very well wage!

[Doug Henwood]

[Original via Michael Eisenscher; reformatted, with total column 
added, and sorted by total, by your moderator. In 1998, the median 
U.S. household income was $38,885; average of top 5%, 222,283; of the 
$top 20%, $127,529]

AFL-CIO Salaries and Benefits/Allowences for 1998

                                    salary      benefits    total
LIUNA, Arthur A. Coia:             335,674      86,120     421,794
BSOIW, Jake West:                  196,390     184,750     381,140
AFSCME, Gerald McEntee:            352,404      16,800     369,204
ALPA, Randolph Babbitt:            314,995      34,000     348,995
AFT, Sandra Feldman:               246,563      94,932     341,495
UFCW, Douglas H. Dority:           264,152      58,167     322,319
HERE, John Wilhelm:                280,793      30,700     311,493
NEA, Robert F. Chase:              196,427      94,049     290,476
UNITE, Jay Mazur:                  196,462      54,796     251,258
IUOE, Frank Hanley:                231,237      15,600     246,837
SEIU, Andrew Stern:                215,218       7,800     223,018
UBC,  Douglas J. McCarron:         194,250      28,700     222,950
AFL-CIO, John J. Sweeney:          199,750       7,250     207,000
IAM,  R.T. Buffenbarger:           142,801      57,871     200,672
IBEW, J.J.  Barry:                 198,533         ?       198,533
CWA, Morton Bahr:                  152,762       9,556     162,318
UWSA, George F. Becker:            131,499      22,432     153,931
AFGE, Bobby L. Harnage:            122,746      15,109     137,855
UAW, Stephen P. Yokich:            112,608       6,900     119,508
UMW,  Ronald E. Cecil:              96,224       3,960     100,184