Executive pay structure involves determine that compensation elements (tools) to be used and the levels or amounts for each. The...
Executive Compensation: How do companies determine their upper-management pay structure?
Sep 01,2014September 1, 2014
Archive for category: Executive Compensation
Tipping Points – 5 for Pay Professionals
Aug 25,2014August 25, 2014
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“The moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.1” This is how Malcolm Gladwell describes the tipping point. It...
Does ISS Understand Your Equity Compensation?
Aug 14,2014August 14, 2014
A common complaint about ISS is that they often evaluate equity compensation programs without fully understanding them. Today ISS announced...
Dueling Data – Stock Options or Performance Units?
Aug 12,2014August 12, 2014
My trusty Google Alerts continue to update me on what is happening in the world of Compensation. Because of this...
Want a Raise or Promotion? Read Your Proxy Statement
Jul 22,2014July 22, 2014
You’re a hard worker. You’re dedicated and passionate about your job. But, promotions and raises have come slowly. Both require...
Pay for Performance Lessons from the Tour de France
Jul 21,2014July 21, 2014
The 2014 Tour de France is 2276 miles (3664 K). It is a grueling race that covers 21 stages that...
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Compensation Professionals
Jul 10,2014July 10, 2014
It’s hard. Sometimes it’s very hard. You took the classes. You studied the facts. You brought in great outside experts....
How Relative TSR is a Bit Like Cough Medicine – a bedtime story for executive compensation professionals.
Jun 27,2014June 27, 2014
Once upon a time in a land pretty darned close to where you live… Little ExecComp wasn’t feeling well. Whatever...
You Get 2 Shares and You Get 4 Shares and So on and So on…
Jun 18,2014June 18, 2014
Geometric progression of pay from one pay grade or level to the next sounds pretty crazy. But, while doing research...
If Shareholders and Executives Explained Executive Pay as a Meal
Jun 09,2014June 9, 2014
Recently a lawyer mentioned to me that he had decided to utilize more basic executive plan designs, even when they...