This week the SEC announced charges against Hilton Worldwide Holdings for failing to disclose approximately $1.7 million worth of perquisites related to personal use of the company’s corporate jet and executive hotel stays. The commission says the hotelier “failed to appropriately apply the SEC’s compensation disclosure rules to its system for identifying, tracking and calculating perquisites.” This enforcement action…
There are several reasons for boards to move on from a compensation consulting firm, and as the mandate facing comp committees increases in magnitude and scope, some comp consultants may not be the right fit any longer. According to data from public company intelligence provider MyLogIQ, 299 Russell 3000 companies switched comp consulting firms between 2019…
As the time of year approaches when many board committees conduct reviews of director compensation, boards are pressing pause on annual increases to cash and equity retainers, and only making small surgical changes to compensation programs if it appears necessary due to leadership transitions. George Paulin, chairman and CEO of Frederic W. Cook & Co., says…
While many executives continue to work from home, data shows that travel by corporate aircraft and chartered and fractionally owned jet fleets has begun to take off in recent weeks. That trend is likely to continue through 2020 as companies seek to reduce the risk of CEOs’ being exposed to the coronavirus. Accordingly, sources say…
CFOs saw an increase in pay last year as responsibilities for non-financial issues, including operations and strategy, expanded, sources say. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic is driving a redoubled focus on operations and emergency planning from CFOs, and some companies are bringing in battle-hardened finance veterans to tackle the issues related to the crisis. However, it…
Hundreds of U.S. companies reduced salaries for their chief executives as the coronavirus pandemic swept across American business, a reversal for a group of leaders that until this year has ridden a bull market to record compensation. Big-company CEOs had their richest paydays ever in 2019, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows. But in March…
As companies around the world struggle to mitigate the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, executive leadership is being put to the test. CEOs are facing intense scrutiny for how and when they are reopening their companies. While 2020 might see a freeze in CEO salary, 2019 was a good year for executive pay, as…
As companies around the world struggle to mitigate the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, executive leadership is being put to the test. CEOs are facing intense scrutiny for how and when they are reopening their companies. While 2020 might see a freeze in CEO salary, 2019 was a good year for executive pay, as…
As companies around the world struggle to mitigate the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, executive leadership is being put to the test. CEOs are facing intense scrutiny for how and when they are reopening their companies. While 2020 might see a freeze in CEO salary, 2019 was a good year for executive pay, as…
Cheesecake Factory Inc. furloughed about 41,000 hourly restaurant workers to conserve cash in the coronavirus pandemic. It also cut pay for other employees by as much 20%—a reduction that Chief Executive David Overton matched for his $995,000 salary. At Yum Brands Inc., Chief Executive David Gibbs is forgoing his $1.2 million salary for the rest of this year, using the…