Starbucks CEO's multi-million dollar options package raises eyebrows

At the end of May, with Starbucks stock at $25.89, Howard Schultz's options package was worth a whopping $46.8 million. "I would question why anybody needs to receive compensation at that level in order to be encouraged to do a good job," says Doug Kilgore, executive director of the Worker Owner Council of Washington State, which monitors Northwest companies in which construction-union...