Severance practices continue to evolve, but not as dramatically as we have seen in previous years. Corporate directors persist in implementing reformations of severance practices, but at this point these changes tend to involve minor tweaks rather than drastic revisions. These reformations take...

Learn how executive pay packages and incentive pay are designed for the top 200 public companies. Gallagher's HR & Compensation Consulting's 8th annual report investigates executive compensation info being shared in annual proxy statements. This study provides a behind-the-scenes look at how...

Shareholders are increasingly aware of executive compensation issues and are focused on the relationship between pay and performance. Indeed, with say on pay (“SOP”) implemented in 2011 (with most of the SOP votes being annual), pay for performance has become a core issue for investors and a...

Perquisites are a form of non-performance based pay that has received significant scrutiny by shareholders over the past eight years, since new SEC disclosure requirements have highlighted more information about them. In order to investigate how perquisite levels have changed in the past six...

Finding the right balance is key to your long-term incentive plan. How does your company's program measure up against the top US companies? This article summarizes trends in long-term incentive design, based on data as disclosed in 2014 annual proxy statements for 200 of the largest U.S. companies

This article provides an analysis of how incentives are being structured to connect pay and performance at electric utility companies. Within the largest 200 US public companies, there are 16 electric utility companies (“EUC-16”). We are looking at the EUC-16 as a separate group from the...

In order to investigate what (and how much) is being shared in annual proxy statements about executive pay packages and how incentive pay is designed, Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.'s Human Resources & Compensation Consulting Practice has conducted a study of the 2014 annual proxy statement...

James F. Reda & Associates, LLC conducted this study of proxy statement disclosures for selected companies from the Standard & Poor's large-cap stock indexes ("S&P large-cap companies") for 2006 and 2007 (as reported in 2007 and 2008). The purpose of this study is to provide a resource of...

There have been substantial changes in executive compensation reported by companies in their 2009 proxy statements following an unprecedented drop in stock prices. This study reviewed 200 of the largest companies (by market capitalization) that comprise the S&P 500 Stock Index. We reviewed...

This study provides a behind-the-scenes look at how incentives are being structured to connect pay and performance. In order to investigate what (and how much) is being shared in annual proxy statements about executive pay packages and how incentive pay is designed, James F. Reda & Associates,...