Because they're high school kids with no job skills and no responsibilities, and they're only working 15-20 hours a week. They're there to get experience and learn how to complete their tasks as required.
That’s bull. We live in a capitalist country which means people deserve to be paid fairly for their labor. I don’t care if you’re a janitor my dad always said no one has a right to look down on good honest labor. Pay people what they’re worth. If you have 4 years experience working in fast food that’s a skill
He gets paid $1.6 million in cash and the rest in stock options, which don't come out of the company's profit. Each McDonald's location is owned by a franchisee, not the McDonald's corporation. The McDonald's corporation is the landlord and rents those locations to the franchisees.
The shares are created out of thin air - the money doesn't come from the corporation. The money comes from the buyers of those shares of stock when the CEO sells them, and he can't sell them for a set number of years (usually 2+).
Which are minimal legal fees to draft a new incentive agreement and create more shares, and then accounting adjustments to show the new share structure.
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u/UncreativeUsername84 14h ago
You don't. Those are most likely high school students working their first job.