With 89% of S&P 500 companies reporting CEO compensation for 2021 as of the end of April for the 2022 proxy season, we used the CompanyIQ® executive compensation database to analyze elements of CEO compensation, median employee compensation, and CEO pay ratios. Key findings include: $18.5 M = Average CEO Total Compensation $1.2 M =…
A review of R3000 CEO pay in 2021 indicates that: Eleven CEOs at ten Russell 3000 companies earned more than $100 million in 2021 Jeff Green, CEO of Trade Desk, earned the highest reported pay package of nearly $835 million The average total compensation for CEOs making over $100 million was $309 million The average…
Using our CompanyIQ® compensation database, we analyzed the top pay elements of S&P 500 CEO compensation based on the 368 2021 year-to-date (YTD) proxies released as of 4/18/22. With nearly three-quarters of companies reporting, we looked at the following three elements of CEO pay as well as total compensation and found that: The average S&P…
With two-thirds of the S&P 500 reporting 2021 CEO compensation as of April 11, 2022, we can see which companies are in the 1,000+ CEO pay ratio club. There are 13 so far with David Zaslav at the newly merged Warner Bros. Discovery leading the group. Using our CompanyIQ® executive compensation database, we analyzed the…
The average S&P 500 board of directors cost their companies $3.3 million in compensation with the average per board member pay hitting nearly $325,000 in fiscal year 2020. This represents a nearly 11% increase in compensation since 2016. We used our CompanyIQ® Director Compensation database to analyze board compensation trends for the past five compensation…
Say on Pay votes, instituted by the Dodd-Frank legislation passed after the 2008 financial crisis, allow shareholders to vote on executive pay programs. Although the votes are advisory, boards pay close attention to the results, and even outcomes that yield a passing proposal may be cause for concern. Most companies receive at least 90% approval…
For the fourth year in a row, Gallagher has partnered with MyLogIQ to use our CompanyIQ® executive compensation data to produce the 2021 edition of CEO Executive Compensation Practices. Below are some of the report’s key findings. While CEO pay increased slightly among Russell 3000 companies in 2020, pay for CEOs in their roles five…
With the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on capital management, the CFO (chief financial officer) role in public companies has taken on greater prominence over the past few months. We used our CompanyIQ® research platform to review CFO and CEO (chief executive officer) pay in the S&P 500 for the 2015-2019 compensation years. The data shows where…
A Profile of Compensation Consultants in the R3000
With nearly one in five S&P 500 companies cutting executive pay in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, CEO compensation remains a topic of significant ESG attention. While we wait to see if the pandemic pay cuts have any long-term impact on executive compensation in 2020 and beyond, we do know that CEO pay in 2019…