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Hollywood writers say the bosses make too much. This is what our analysis found

A Times survey tallies the paydays for the heads of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix and more. The issue has become a hot topic on picket lin

Los Angeles Times

“If they don’t have any money to give us raises, then how did they — the executives in the C-suite — amass such record salaries?” asked Royce, co-creator of TNT’s “Men of a Certain Age” and the co-showrunner behind Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” reboot. “The difference between CEO pay and worker pay has never been greater in most industries, but in this industry it’s even worse.”

It’s a recurring theme on picket lines across Los Angeles and New York: writers say they’ve been shortchanged by the streaming revolution even as their employers were richly rewarded. “We Just Want 2% From the 1%,” read one recent picket sign that reflected the Occupy Wall Street-esque rhetoric used by the WGA.

A Times review of executive compensation at 10 publicly held media and entertainment companies supports that narrative, with some qualification.