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Equity Compensation Triage Assessment (Stock Options on Precipice Part 2)
Feb 11,2016February 11, 2016
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Communication, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Other Rewards, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Say on Pay, Start-up Pay, Stock OptionsTags compensation communication, equity compensation, ESPP, executive compensation, option exchange, repricing, RSUs, start-up pay, stock options, stock/equity compensation, total rewards
The first article in this “Stock Options on the Precipice” series covered some of the main issues that are currently...
You are Not Lebron James (or Facebook, or Google)
Nov 04,2015November 4, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Compensation Planning, Culture, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Recognition, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, communication, compensation philosophy, compensation planning, culture, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, motivation, pay for performance, peer groups, Performance Management, recognition, stock/equity compensation, strategy, total rewards
Lebron James has just become the youngest person in NBA history to score 25,000 points in his career. He is...
Delicious Amber Transparency
Oct 26,2015October 26, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Recognition, Short-Term Incentives - STITags Base Salaries, Benefits & Perquisites, compensation communication, compensation philosophy, executive compensation, Incentives/Bonuses, recognition, total rewards
We talk a lot about pay transparency. It seems like half the time half of compensation professionals argue for more...
IN MEMORIUM: FAREWELL ANNUAL RAISE
Oct 13,2015October 13, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Long Term Incentives, Other Rewards, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags Base Salaries, Bonus, compensation, compensation philosophy, incentive pay, Incentives/Bonuses, merit increase, P4P, pay, pay for performance, performance, raises
An article was published last week with data from Aon Hewitt and Towers Watson that showed the annual pay raise is...
Speed, Velocity and Acceleration in Pay
Sep 28,2015September 28, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Bonus, Communication, Equity Compensation, ESPP, Executive Compensation, Long Term Incentives, Pay For Performance, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, RSU, Sales Compensation, SAR-Stock Appreciation Rights, Short-Term Incentives - STI, Stock OptionsTags base pay, Base Pay / Salary, base salary, bonuses, compensation communication, equity compensation, executive compensation, executive pay, incentive compensation, incentive pay, incentives, long term incentives, P4P, pay for performance, sales compensation, Short-Term Incentives - STI, stock compensation, stock/equity compensation, survery data, surveys
I was reading a Facebook message a parent posted about their kid’s physics homework and it resonated as a reminder...
Three Ways Average Companies Pay Their Employees
Aug 27,2015August 27, 2015
By adminIn Articles, Base Pay / Salary, Communication, Compensation Philosophy, Equity Compensation, Executive Compensation, Other RewardsTags average pay, base pay, Base Salaries, bonuses, compensation, compensation communication, compensation philosophy, executive compensation, pay, surveys, total rewards
I just watched a great TED talk from a few years ago. In it, Todd Rose discusses the “average” in...
CEO Pay is a Problem, but not THE Problem
Aug 17,2015August 17, 2015
First, I want to make it clear that plenty of CEOs are paid way too much money, but most are...
Paying Everyone Equally is a Terrible Idea
Aug 05,2015August 5, 2015
Many of you may have read about Gravity Payments, the company in Seattle, Washington with the magnanimous CEO who decided...
5 Predictions about CEO Pay Ratio
Aug 05,2015August 5, 2015
On August 5, 2015 the SEC voted to approve a new rule on the disclosure of the ratio of CEO...