How much do CEOs make? Last year, the answer ranged from $0 to nearly $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal’s annual ranking of S&P 500 companies. The median CEO’s compensation package in 2021 was $14.7 million. Most of that amount comes in the form of equity awards that could ultimately prove to be…
We updated our June 2020 CompanyIQ® report on ethnic/racial diversity among the CEOs who run the largest U.S. public companies and found that not much has changed. Key findings for S&P 500 CEO diversity include: 14% of CEOs are people of color Only 6 CEOs are women of color Only 2% of S&P 500 CEOs…
Some market watchers argue that the rise in median executive payouts is a natural consequence of the stiffer competition for scarce business talent, and paying huge executive salaries adds to stockholder value. But as the difference between the average worker’s salary and executive grows wider each year, critics argue that whether they increase productivity or…
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 =…
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…
Pay increases for U.S. chief executives have gained steam, putting compensation on pace to set a record amid a tight labor market that is also driving pay higher for many of their workers. Median pay rose to $14.2 million last year for the leaders of S&P 500 companies, up from a record $13.4 million for…
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…
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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…
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…
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