Last year, 4 Anthem Vice Presidents made over $5 million, and the President and CEO Gail Boudreaux made over $17 million. In the meantime, the median Anthem employee wages have declined the last two years by over $10,000:
2017: $70,867
2018: $72,308
2019: $62,686
2020: $61,544
Gail earned $17,109,952 in 2020. If taking her total pay with benefits and bonuses and applying it to a 40 hour workweek and 8 hour day, Gail earned $65,807.50 per day. Gail earned more in ONE DAY than the median worker at Anthem earned ALL YEAR.
We work very hard in a chaotic environment for a company that is too large to fail, because it would fail if it was a smaller company the way it is run, especially with its awful customer service. We toil in jobs where our low bid purchased systems fail at least once a week and we are told to keep producing more and more with less and less people. We work for one of the largest insurance companies in the world yet our own insurance coverage is awful and gets worse every year. We have massive levels of stress in our jobs every day and yet we get piddly little increases in our pay every year while the pay of our leaders keeps increasing.
https://www1.salary.com/ANTHEM-INC-Executive-Salaries.html