Nearly every S&P 500 company relies on external compensation consultants to guide executive pay decisions—and the market is highly concentrated among a handful of firms. According to MyLogIQ’s CompanyIQ® platform, which tracks executive compensation trends and disclosures, the latest analysis reveals how this critical advisory market has evolved over the past five years. Key Findings…
The executive compensation landscape continues to evolve, with shifting priorities in incentive structures and rising mega pay packages. MyLogIQ’s latest CompanyIQ report delivers detailed insights into S&P 500 CEO pay trends between 2022 and 2024, revealing how leading companies are rewarding top executives and structuring performance metrics. Key Highlights from the Report CEO Pay at…
Mega executive compensation deals were fairly rare until 2017 when eight S&P 500 CEOs reached the milestone of more than $50 million in annual pay. These large CEO pay packages peaked at 14 in 2021. Among our findings regarding S&P 500 CEO pay from 2013-2023 are that: 79 S&P 500 CEOs received pay packages of…
Using the CompanyIQ executive compensation research platform, we analyzed the use of ESG metrics in named executive officers (NEOs) short-term and long-term incentive pay among S&P 500 companies.
Using CompanyIQ executive compensation data, Gallagher reviewed CEO pay data trends in its annual report. Throughout 2021 and into 2022, compensation committee agendas remain in flux as companies continue to respond to fluctuating market effects on business operations, workforce health, supply chain and overall organizational wellbeing. To help make sense of the numbers, Gallagher’s CEO…
Once extremely rare, there has been a significant increase in CEO pay packages of more than $100M in the last two years among Russell 3000 (R3000) companies. These mega executive compensation deals were almost non-existent just five years ago, with none in 2012 to a high of 16 in 2020. Over the past decade, the…
This is the fifth year that U.S. publicly traded companies have to disclose median employee pay. With data from the CompanyIQ® database, this report identifies the 25 highest and lowest median employee pay companies in the S&P 500. The dataset is based on the 451 companies that have reported compensation data for the 2021 compensation…
Using the CompanyIQ® executive compensation database, we examine executive pay, including a breakdown of equity and CEO pay ratios, in the biopharma industry. Specifically, we analyzed a CompanyIQ® dataset for fiscal year 2021 that included all Value Reporting Foundation (VRF, formerly Sustainability Accounting Standards Board—SASB) designated companies in the Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals industry within the…
Equity compensation, comprising grants of stock awards and stock option awards, is the largest component of CEO pay at S&P 500 companies. Boards align the incentives of CEOs with shareholders through shared stock ownership and stock performance goals. In 2021, 71% of S&P 500 CEO pay packages was awarded in equity compensation–an increase of seven…
Using CompanyIQ® executive compensation data, this report analyzes long-term incentive plans for S&P 500 CEOs from 2019-2021. Key findings include: Roughly 80% of S&P 500 companies employed performance-based LTI awards from 2019 to 2021. The prevalence of performance periods in the range of two to four years declined from 93.4% of LTI metrics in 2019…