Use the benefits of & # 39; Avengers & # 39; to better pay the workers

Senator Bernie Sanders went on Twitter Monday to criticize the salary of Disney's CEO, Bob Iger, and suggest that Disney should use the huge box office pan of his superhero movie "Avengers : Endgame "to give pay raises to his employees.

Sanders' tweet comes just a day after Disney revealed that "Endgame" had broken box office records, pocketing $ 356 million in the US and more than $ 1.22 billion internationally in five days barely.

"What would be really heroic is that Disney is using the profits of" Avengers "to pay a middle-class salary to all of its employees, instead of paying his general manager Bob Iger $ 65.6 million, or more 1,400 times the average salary of a worker at Disney, "Sanders wrote in a tweet Monday.

Sanders, an independent Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, is not the first to criticize the huge Iger settlement check.

Last week, Disney's heiress, Abigail Disney, the co-founder's granddaughter, once again publicly apologized for Iger's compensation, calling it "crazy woman".

This comment was published after a recent study by Equilar according to which Iger 's salary was 1,424 times higher than that of Disney' s median employee.

In March, Iger signed a new indemnification agreement providing for a reduction of $ 13.5 million from its maximum annual salary.

However, the previous year he had received $ 65.6 million for his performance within the company, resulting from a salary increase for the extension of his tenure at Disney until 2021. and equity awards in excess of $ 35 million.

This year, however, the company eliminated an increase of $ 500,000 from its base salary, keeping it at $ 3 million. He also reduced his cash bonus potential from $ 20 million to $ 12 million and reduced his long-term incentive pay from $ 25 million to $ 20 million, the company said in a securities deposit.