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 Company® compensation data, the Wall Street Journal looks at the biggest CEO pay package. Below is an excerpt from the article by Theo Francis. The head of advertising-technology company Trade Desk Inc. received a pay package last year that the company valued at more than $800 million—and which could leave him holding billions of…
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…
CEO pay has been described as obscenely high by investors, worker activists, and the press. How, these groups ask, can one person be worth millions or even tens of millions of dollars in compensation each year? Asked another way, how can one person be paid so much more than company employees? For example, Aptiv Plc…
The amount of money America CEOs make has been called obscene. It is often many hundred times what their employees earn. The trend has been particularly criticized at public corporations that pay people little more than the locally mandated minimum wage. This has included, in the recent past, such operations as McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Walmart….
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 chief executive officers of America’s largest companies have enjoyed pay raises most years for decades. That was interrupted at some public corporations, as the COVID-19 pandemic caused some of them to agree to salary cuts due to a decline in earnings or large layoffs of their workers. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) data…
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…
TikTok stars are dancing their way to the bank. Some are making more than America’s top chief executives. Charli D’Amelio, who started posting videos of herself dancing on TikTok in 2019, brought in $17.5 million last year, according to Forbes, which recently ranked the highest-earning TikTok stars of 2021. With 133 million followers on TikTok,…
In recent years, tax gross-ups, along with many other executive perquisites, have fallen out of favor with investors and been on the decline. However, the practice persists for certain members of the C-suite. Nearly a third of S&P 100 companies awarded gross-ups to at least one executive last year, while over a fifth of companies…
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