Wall Street Chiefs’ Pay Doesn’t Sync With Returns
By: Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2019
Wall Street companies delivered significant losses to their shareholders last year, but the pain didn’t spread to the top.
The chiefs of banking and financial institutions in the S&P 500 received a median raise of 8.5% last year, compared with 5.6% for CEOs in the broader index, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.
Meanwhile, firms in the sector posted a median total shareholder return—or stock-price changes plus dividends—of negative 17% in 2018, while the median return for the index as a whole was negative 5.8%.
Median pay for finance CEOs was $11.4 million for the year, $1 million below the overall S&P 500 median. The Journal analysis uses total compensation as specified by Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, which includes salary, annual bonuses, and long-term equity and cash incentives. It also includes perquisites and the value of pension gains and some increases in deferred compensation accounts.
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