A leading professor claims employer-provided egg freezing is actually an 'anti-family' perk, as it's cheaper for them to pay for this than lose key staff: Read more
A Look at Amazon’s Compensation Practices
No matter how clear your leadership principles and yearly plan may be, they speak softly in comparison to financial incentives. Money talks — if your … Read more
Comp Guide for a Small Company: Why You Need a Salary Survey
Note: This is the second in a 4-part series on compensation practices for small companies. In this series Margaret O’Hanlon shows how a small company … Read more
The Case For Scrapping Your Long Term Incentives
If you’re like most companies, you provide stock options, restricted stock grants, and other long-term-incentives to your senior executives. But do … Read more
3 Steps You Can Take to Close the Gender Pay and Opportunity Gaps
Gender pay data can be examined in a number of different ways, but no matter how you slice it, the pay gap still exists. The most recent research by … Read more
Hiring a CEO? The Data Behind What Makes a Great One
CEOs are measured on everything. Company earnings, culture, leadership, employee retention, business trajectory, and so on. It’s no wonder the … Read more
Your Exec Pay Survey May Be Costing You Too Much
As proxy season comes to a close each year, compensation specialists face the tall task of compiling significant amounts of newly reported executive … Read more
Digging Into Executive Pay: Is It Really Out of Control?
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule this month that will require publicly traded companies to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to the … Read more
Gravity Payments Proves That Paying Everyone Equally Is an Equally Bad Idea
Many of you may have read about Gravity Payments, the company in Seattle with the magnanimous CEO who decided to do the right thing. In April, CEO Dan … Read more
Excessive Pay Is STILL Excessive – and the Boss Still Needs Skin in the Game
In 1991, Bud Crystal released the book In Search of Excess, a scathing commentary on executive pay. I was a newly minted Compensation Consultant in a large … Read more