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CEO & Executive Compensation

CEO and Executive Compensation Practices documents trends and developments on senior management compensation at nearly 2,500 companies. In addition to benchmarks on individual elements of compensation packages and the evolving features of short-term and long-term incentive plans, the report provides details on shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation (say on pay) and outlines the major practices on board oversight of compensation design.

CEO & Executive Compensation Practices: 2021 Edition (Complimentary): Download the latest edition of our report.

Dashboard (Complimentary): Use the online dashboard to visualize trends across Russell 3000 and S&P 500 indexes, GICS business sectors and company size groups.

Benchmarking Tool (Members Only): Benchmark your company’s executive compensation practices against a custom peer group and generate detailed reports to inform your pay-setting process.

ESG Compensation Metrics Screening Tool (Members Only): Screen for ESG performance metrics in executive compensation across the entire Russell 3000 to learn about how peers in your industry, index and of similar company size are doing so already.

Benchmarking

ESG Incentive Plan Metrics Screening Tool

Screen for ESG performance metrics in executive compensation across the entire Russell 3000 to learn about how peers in your industry, index and of similar company size are doing so already.

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