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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-krauserTodd 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.

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