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…
5,435 Directors – The companies in the S&P 500, arguably among the biggest companies in the world, are overseen by 5,435 active directors. Using our CompanyIQ® platform, we surveyed the most recent SEC filings of these companies to identify some key demographics of who these people are that make far-reaching decisions affecting most corners of…
24 S&P 500 CEOs Belong to the Thousand Times Plus Club – Our CompanyIQ® SEC EDGAR database review of the 491 proxy statements filed by S&P 500 companies as of April 30, 2019 indicates that 24 CEOs made more than 1,000 times their employees’ median annual salary in 2018.
At one time, being a member of the board of directors of an S&P 500 company might have meant attending a few meetings a year, having some meals at the company’s expense, and scoring a nice stipend. Those days are probably over for most publicly traded U.S. companies as demands for board oversight have been…