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November 22, 2017
2017 Director Compensation Report
Research Report | By Todd Krauser
We are pleased to present our fifth study of aggregate share-based compensation. This report covers the three-year period from 2011 to 2013, and includes the following:
- Company-wide annual grant rates, measured based on annual share usage and fair value transfer (“FVT”)
- Annual share usage is the number of shares granted as a percent of outstanding shares, expressed on an option-equivalent basis to normalize for differences in the value of stock options and full shares
- Fair value transfer is the aggregate pre-tax compensation cost of grants as a percent of company market capitalization value and as a percent of revenue at grant
- Overhang, measured based on share dilution as well as the fair value of outstanding grants
- Frequency and prevalence of long-term incentive plan share requests
- Allocation of long-term incentive pools to the CEO and other proxy officers (“Top 5”)
- Prevalence of employee stock purchase plans (“ESPPs”)
Todd Krauser
Managing Director
Todd Krauser, a managing director at FW Cook, spe-cializes in advising companies on pay strategy development, incentive plan design and performance measurement linkages.