Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett said he has seen a burgeoning trend of snowballing CEO pay as executives eyeball each other’s ever-growing compensation deals.

In his annual shareholder letter —the last one he will pen as CEO before Berkshire vice chair Greg Abel takes over on Jan. 1—Buffett suggested chief executives are driven by greed and selfishness to drive up their own pay after seeing competitors ratchet up their own remunerations.

“What often bothers very wealthy CEOs—they are human, after all—is that other CEOs are getting even richer,” he said. “Envy and greed walk hand in hand. And what consultant ever recommended a serious cut in CEO compensation or board payments?”

Buffett’s remarks come on the heels of Tesla investors approving CEO Elon Musk’s record-breaking

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