New interpretive guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in February 2018 makes it clear that staff there will be paying increased attention to cybersecurity risks and how well publicly traded companies are disclosing them. Concern among investors, customers, and regulators about data protection and infrastructure safety continues to grow. A robust cybersecurity program…
Keeping a job, any job, for 20 years or more is becoming rarer and rarer. The feat may be uniquely treacherous for the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company that is judged on quarterly performance. As goes the company, so goes the CEO’s career. Among the companies that comprise the S&P 500 index,…
How would you like to work one to two days a year and make a year’s worth of salary? That’s what most CEOs of S&P 500 companies do to make the median salary of workers in their home states, according to the latest figures available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2016. Using the…
With compensation data from the CompanyIQ® databse, this report provides the CEO pay ratios for 33 states in the inaugural disclosure of CEO pay compared to median employee compensation under the Dodd-Frank Act.