S & P 5 00 C O M P A N I E S : F E B – A P R I L 2 02 0 In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, public companies are taking various measures to conserve liquidity. To date, 44 S&P 500 companies have cut director pay. All but…
13 S&P 500 CEOs Belong to the Thousand Times Plus Club – Our review of the 359 proxy statements filed by S&P 500 companies as of April 14, 2020 indicates that 13 CEOs made more than 1,000 times their employees’ median annual salary in 2019. The chart on page 2 and the table on page…
140 Interim CEOships since 2014 with Avearge Pay of $1.6 Million Between 2014 and YTD 2019, Russell 3000 companies had 140 interim CEO positions with an average total compensation of $1.6 million. Making up those 140 interim CEOships over the past six years were: 126 companies 140 We used our CompanyIQ® compensation tool to review…
Partnering with Gallagher and The Conference Board, we provided executive pay data from the CompanyIQ® executive compensation database to look at trends in CEO pay. Below are some of the key findings. In 2018, for the second year in a row, total CEO compensation grew in the Russell 3000 at a markedly higher rate than…
The CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR search tool can identify the most expensive boards and their demographics. Here are some key findings. Annual Total Costs in the Millions – The top ten highest cost boards in the Russell 3000 spent from $9 million to $61 million in director costs in 2018, the latest year the data is…
This brief, using NEO compensation data from the CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR databse, looks at the top 10 general counsel compensation packages by company in 2018 across eight indices, including the S&P 500 and the three Russells. At $47.3 million, the Alphabet general counsel had the top pay for the S&P 100, S&P 500, Russell 1000,…
A Third to Half of Companies Have their General Counsel as a Named Executive Officer General counsels in public companies often play a significant strategic role. However, not all companies identify their general counsel as one of their five named executive officers (NEO). We used our CompanyIQ® platform to review the 2018 SEC filings of…
CEOs Are Not the Only Ones Making Millions – It’s not uncommon for companies to pay key non-CEO executives millions of dollars. However, there is an elite group of executives in the S&P 500 who make more than or as much as their CEOs. The CompanyIQr SEC EDGAR searcgh platform indicates that among the S&P…
Perks in the Millions – The ten biggest all other compensation (AOC) payouts to CEOs in the S&P 500 varied widely from $49 million to $1.3 million in 2018. The CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database breaks out AOC, which generally is payment of perks, such as security, private air and car travel, and retirement contributions, can…
24 S&P 500 CEOs Belong to the Thousand Times Plus Club – Our CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database review of the 491 proxy statements filed by S&P 500 companies as of April 30, 2019 indicates that 24 CEOs made more than 1,000 times their employees’ median annual salary in 2018.