As shareholder expectations evolve and scrutiny over executive compensation intensifies, a new analysis from Agenda shows that the highest-performing companies in the S&P 500 are taking a distinctly different approach to CEO pay—placing a much stronger emphasis on CEO stock options and performance-based incentives. And with MyLogIQ’s detailed executive compensation intelligence, we now have clearer…
Using Company® compensation data, the Wall Street Journal looks at the biggest CEO pay package. Below is an excerpt from the article by Theo Francis. The head of advertising-technology company Trade Desk Inc. received a pay package last year that the company valued at more than $800 million—and which could leave him holding billions of…
Using our CompanyIQ® compensation database, we analyzed the top pay elements of S&P 500 CEO compensation based on the 368 2021 year-to-date (YTD) proxies released as of 4/18/22. With nearly three-quarters of companies reporting, we looked at the following three elements of CEO pay as well as total compensation and found that: The average S&P…
Discovery Inc Chief Executive David Zaslav received total compensation valued at $246.6 million in 2021, including nearly $203 million in options grants, more than sextupling his compensation from the year before, the company said in a securities filing Monday. Mr. Zaslav’s compensation package is the highest CEO pay reported by any S&P 500 company so…
Discovery Inc. DISCB -1.47% gave Chief Executive David Zaslav 14.8 million stock options on Sunday, the day before the company and AT&T Inc. T -1.14% announced a plan to merge Discovery with AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit, according to a securities filing. The company valued the option grants at roughly $190 million on Wednesday evening, taking into account the company’s share-price volatility and potential stock appreciation over…
The company that sells Tasers to police departments around the world paid its chief executive $246 million last year, according to a proxy filed last month, one of the biggest compensation packages for a corporate leader. The pay came in a package of stock options that Axon Enterprise Inc. gave longtime CEO Patrick Smith last year. However, the…