For many businesses, 2011 was a good year, and chief executives had reason to be satisfied as well. Board members of DAX companies, for instance, earned 13 percent more on average than in the previous year.
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VW CEO Martin Winterkorn increased his earnings by a whopping 63 percent, to 17 million euros. Company success aside, is such a payment justifiable? Report by Kerstin Schweizer