Executive Pay Claw backs – Things Just (Almost) Got Real!

The date: July 1, 2015. The place: Washington D.C. The situation: The SEC proposes rules for executive compensation claw back...

ICYMI – Executive Pay Updates Mid-2015

This post is a roundup of recent and impending activity in the world of executive compensation. Normally, this is the...

Silence Isn’t Golden

I hope your employees aren’t complaining about your compensation programs. If they are complaining out loud, then the problem has...

From the SEC: Please Link Executive Pay to Performance

Sleep well sweet Prince, or perhaps Emperor. We now send executive compensation to its inevitable peaceful and infinite slumber. Shown...

The Beowulf of Compensation

Most of you know of the poem Beowulf. Legend has it that it was passed down through oral performances for...

New Book on Communicating Compensation Plans!

Everything You Do in Compensation is Communication: 3/8 of the Compensation Cafe Publishes a Book! …. $10 discount through September...

Tipping Points – 5 for Pay Professionals

“The moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.1” This is how Malcolm Gladwell describes the tipping point. It...