CEO Compensation

CEO Compensation Articles

Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof.  Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result, and...
The cost of Thanksgiving is going to be higher for 2010.  There is often no better comparison than any fixed points in time around key memorable events, and Thanksgiving is a time that is easy to...
Rating the non-profit sector is tricky.  The main ratings services Charity Navigator and BBB Wise Giving Alliance are both flawed. Moreover, some in the non-profit world object to the idea of...
By Douglas A. McIntyre Thanks to gross excesses in executive compensation exposed during the financial crisis, CEO pay has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.   At the prodding of the...
Irish banks are not newly in trouble, but fresh pressure is only going to further mount pressure on an already battered sector.  On Sunday, Ireland’s main opposition party reportedly said that it...
The Wall Street austerity of 2008 and 2009 has quickly given in to a bounty of riches for the top tier of management at large financial firms. Proxies showed this began late last year. Today it was...
Mark Hurd won’t make much in salary as c0-president of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)–only $950,000. His bonuses will be relatively modest as well. In a letter from the company: “We offer you a starting...
The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most...
Young women outearn their male counterparts by a mile. According to information from Reach Advisers published by The Wall Street Journal, “In 2008, single, childless women between ages 22 and 30...
Starbucks Corp.  (NYSE: SBUX) Chief Executive Howard Schultz took plenty of grief earlier this year after his company awarded him a $1 million bonus at a time when the coffee retailer was...
Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) is the most highly regarded CEO of any large financial services firm by his employees. That is the conclusion of the 2010 Summer Finance Employee...
The for-profit education sector has seen its fair share of volatility lately. The sector seems to have settled down, but the current trend in Washington D.C. is still viewed as a threat.  DeVry Inc....
Larry Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) probably deserves a huge pay package as much as anyone else. His company has become wildly successful and has been a steady producer of strong...
The following are the ten CEOs who received the largest stock option grants in 2009. Together, they enjoyed gains which totaled $230 million based on their value at the end of May. The data, tracked...
Pay czar Ken Feinberg will issue a report which shows that some senior managers at firms which include Citigroup (NYSE: C), JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) made hundreds...