CEO and Executive Compensation Practices: 2018 Edition documents trends in senior management compensation. It benchmarks individual elements of compensation packages and the features of short term and long-term incentive plans (STIs and LTIs), provides details on shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation (say-on-pay), and outlines practices on board oversight of compensation design. Among the findings: Some executives on the Top-25 list of highest paid CEOs were handsomely rewarded despite lackluster TSR results. The inexorable rise of stock awards continues and is countered by declines of annual bonuses in the Russell 3000, base salary in the S&P 500, and stock options in both indices.

This report uses pay data from the CompanyIQ^® executive compensation database.