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OTTAWA — By the time most us finished lunch on Thursday, Canada’s top CEOs had already feasted on the fruits of their labours — earning in half a day what the rest of us would have to work full-time for all of 2014 to collect.

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Over the course of this year, based on 2012 levels, those in Canada’s corner offices will pocket pay packages totaling 171 times the average national income, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). That’s up from 105 times the average wage in 1998.

Put another way, CEOs will earn an average of $7.96-million this year, compared to $46,634 for most other workers, the Ottawa-based think-tank said Thursday in its annual income review of 100 executives.