| Show - - - - r - r Ria Mt ' moved up the income scale—as well as unfortunately down America is now in an era of highly skilled highly paid workers and lower skilled much lower paid ones This year's biggest winner in the corporate sweepstakes was Anthony O'Reilly —CEO chairman and president of Heinz —who earned $751 million in salaries bonuses and shares The highest-pai- d woman in corporate America was Warnaco CEO Linda Wachner with nearly $25 million Although women hold 40 of all executive management and administrative positions in companies only 26 filljobs at vice presidential or higher levels In general though the relative lot of women'workers continues to improve In '91 they made 74 cents to the male $1— or $19396 compared to their brothers' - wage-earne- 1 - MBA which she hopes will put her ahead of "the normal progression up the scale" She's frugal "religiously" pays bills and this year she off her credit-car- d off car her an '88 Nissan Sentra But paid she incurred a whopper of a bill with a $92000 mortgage on the modern townhouse she moved into last March "My immediate goal" she says "is to get my home organized—and then to get back to the kind of lifestyle I had before I took out this mortgage!" Jill Goldstein—a $46000- sixth-grad- e teacher at an inner-cit- y school in Los Angeles—would like to feel as positive but it's hard Her 53- husband's $24000 job as a year-ol- d for Security Pacific Bank is in printer jeopardy since its merger with Bank of America Also because of school budget cutbacks her salary has been restructured so that she works a longer calendar and takes home less "You go into a profession" she says "and you think it's secure—that you'll work for so many years and there'll be no problems But there are problems" With sons aged 19 and 13 and a daughter who's 4 Goldstein finds the family's money "just doesn't go very far—not if you've got a kid in college a kid in nursery school and a mortgage to boot" Yet necessity breeds invention or at least resourcefulness "She is my little girl" says Goldstein as Michelle climbs into her lap "And I am proud to have ''''' 1 continued I 4 - - z1- PARADE MAGAZINE JUNE 21 1992 PAGE - ? ri c t-- '4 9 -- 1 4 -it 'i : ‘'''' t‘ to li A d - o' tr"Thø""'41( jt'l s ! '' -44 z 1 'l 1 A - - '- Is ird1 ra - 1 i 4 -- -- "i g V I ' ' - ' p- -' -- - - -f 4 I ss r F College security guard Helena Mont: 610000 ' ' e ti Katt! 40 ri '4' ' t N - L 1 Li - NL t p A 1 tr‘ I - I 6- 1 4 t g - Ilk Raul Laffitte 42 Labor-rebtiodirector Antonia rivers 27 Loci F Marshall 45 City film commissioner Glendale Ariz: $47000 4Pi Hank Groover 37 owner Savannah Ga: $30000 ) - ' Shrimp-bo- rn - - 1 ' a - 1 '1 - J 4 I '-- 36 J Garth A ''v" '' i: t A' -- 'No $90000 A - ChattanoogaTeen:555600 s 'N 4 1 k 3 11 ''- -- 4 5 decorator et i 3 County public defender ' k 1 '''''4r Arden '0- - ! - — d rI Los Angeles: A it ' l'' ' 4 " Movie-s- : 1i NI r 04 BM $35000 ( ' i ' '4' Sharon Bonney 49 4 1 Wayne Young 43 Swanzey NM: z Kenneth McCoy 46 pumper worker Wamsutter Wyo: $42000 0 --7"' '4 oresier' 'S 'k ''' 'i e 1 ' V ' kelt) itto Newspaper reporter Gray Maine: $36000 4 -- 1l Eric W Blom 28 - -- 1 II I ' - '4 :5" ' k t cs a -- 1 : - Zal I— - ' ' :4 -- 1 -- )0-- i r' $ - ‘ Syd Beane 50 CEO humamsarvices agency Lincoln Neb: sst000 Wilmington Del: $33000 -- 4 4 ! i I - - :: ixv4 1 ' '''''''44 ' - i I ) I - - Cheryl Dobler 31 Bank branch manager 1' ":::!:- - 1 7 ' ' '1 N o tve- 11 't e i t 0''' -- 16 iro $ ? '- ' - 1 3 :': - 1i '4 a ' ' Lance West 25 Accounting clerk Louisville Ky: S13000 ' i '' '::: boN - Anchorage: $8000 I '''-- - i L -- t - --- i - -4 i 'i i v ' i I 44 'n Alison Fisher 19 Retail cletit 5 A 1 ! - "tk 1 i lil 1 0' -- - cr '- -' "" '' e- - i 1 -e -- t - a s Nsk' 4 Y' 1 - -d 1- 1 Sportscaster P1easantonCalt:S22million -- It 7 - 0- 0 tz- N '''- '2'" v ''''' ' John Madden 56 Candy maker Los Angeles: $5600 Bridgeport Conn: $40000 -- -' his was the year the Census Bureau confirmed "the shrinking middle class" which many already had suspected But ' about as many have moved up the income ladder as down — " s 1 Ca f'w-40on- - 1I 1 k 1 -44---- 4e k i I4 Johnson Jr 43 electrician ll Gary Ind: - -- - - - I 1: t - 1 t os- "- ' 11 I ' I - 0 - L ii 1 646000 'i' I 1 ! )?' --- - I 1 ' Biloxi Miss: S13000 - 1 g t f ' Rusty PasquineM Pharmacist 34 W: $42000 1 ' e"1 0 41 ' ) 4'1 1 J 1' Jennifer McAndrew 24 Momentary school teacher Phoenix Ariz: r-leo-r 4 t I 1 4 4toi A ' 1 V hi tor “e ti 1 ! ''44 ' ' 4 39 Robert Seeley 27 Bill Romios Lifeguard Hallandale Cattle rancher 1 cl aa EncampmentViym: 912000 Fla: $25000 $22600 ------ 41 Z k 14 - - 4 '44 JI N- - on II ali 1 1 ' I '1 ' - r 404t ir 711 t'11'''' ‘ 'Ill ‘ Highland A ' o- captain - ) 1 j- t '' If 1 te N 1 -- i Steve Sandoval 32 Public4nformation director Santa Fe NM: $34000 41 Teacher - t t)111 1 - N 11: i 1114---- i 1 i - til re ) '‘ --r- Thomas JL Schultz 60 Shrimp-bo- - 0( Los Angeles: - vow ' oh A It -- A Ikl if A 0-- Jill Goldstein $42000 -- ' 3 - 1 ''' z 4e1- -- t-- j‘ 'Iv Floyd I Steel-mi- 1'''t A' I la-- :: ' ''' r" I ---- - e '' - ! - 1 I - Jr k T 4 - ' j ' e- ' ar t i LI vo Sjo' '‘ semi-suburb- an : -- '''' -- ' ' fel'""' - 4- rs ar ' P average of $26156 Black workers earned 77 as much as white& averaging $18304 and Hispanic workers made 68 as much as whites or $16120 (a slight improvement for blacks but a decrease for Hispanics in constant dollar terms) One of those interviewed in our annual survey of Cheryl Hobler is 31 single and earns $33000 as a branch manager for a Delaware savings bank She feels secure but still touched by the times "My branch is in a blue-collarea of Wilmington" she says "There's a lot of unemployment and the recession has hit people hard There are a lot more reloans" quests for Hobler is studying nights to get her -: ''''''''' '- t '94- -' '4 ti 4 - Marina Pr:at:Dot 42 Chiropractor Minneapolis: $20000 -- I - II t ' A 4 a takt ''1 ' Anthony O'Reilly 56 CEO HI Heinz Co Pittsburgh: 6751 million "11E212E1 5 I 3- ----J |
