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Posts Tagged: Executive Compensation

Should compliance officers accept incentive pay?

Performance bonuses are always an exciting upside. But what about compliance officers? Does incentive pay work for them? There are ways to measure performance and match it to rewards for most C-suiters, managers, and professional staff — sales targets, production goals, hiring matrixes, and so on.… Continue Reading

How much do Chief Compliance Officers make?

The national average salary for a Chief Compliance Officer is nearly $132,000, according to Glassdoor, with some CCOs making more than $250,000 a year.

Glassdoor — a site with job listings and company reviews — shows 112 salaries for the CCO position.… Continue Reading

Finding perverse incentives is hard, fixing them can be harder

Searching for perverse incentives that can become compliance land mines means messing with people’s pay.

You are not just looking to eliminate potentially dangerous design elements, but also identifying changes to variable plans that preserve as much of the positive power of your incentives as possible, while addressing the risks.… Continue Reading

Revisiting EpiPen: Steep incentive thresholds are corporate disasters waiting to happen

The root causes of perverse incentives often hide (in plain sight) in the most common variable compensation structures, which include payout floors, thresholds, payout caps, and stretch goals.

The seeds of the Epipen scandal, for example, were planted when Mylan’s management became eligible for millions of dollars of a one-time bonus payout if they hit 90 percent of their cumulative earnings target.… Continue Reading

Barbara Brooks Kimmel: Searching for balance between trust and CEO performance-based pay

It’s executive compensation season at shareholder meetings and corporate boardrooms across America, and pay for performance continues to be a hot topic.

The intersection of CEO compensation, performance and trust is discussed in recent stories about:

Comcast

Comcast’s Brian Roberts Made $36.2M In 2015, Up 10% (here)

Comcast compensation: Michael Cavanagh is highest paid CFO in the nation (here)

Verizon:

Battle between Verizon and strikers enters endurance phase (here)

And Citigroup:

About One-Third of Citigroup Shareholders Rebuke Bank on Pay (here)

Research shows that performance-based pay can have dangerous outcomes for companies that implement it.… Continue Reading