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2019 Annual Incentive Plan Report
Research Report | By Tom Kohn, Joe Sorrentino
FW Cook’s 2019 Annual Incentive Plan Report focuses on annual incentive plan design practices among the largest 250 companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. Topics covered include:
- Annual incentive measure features, including the number of measures, types of measures, weighting of measures, and use of performance modifiers;
- Annual incentive goal-setting, including setting threshold, target, and maximum performance levels relative to prior year actual performance, and the range from threshold to target and target to maximum performance goals; and
- Maximum payout opportunities and actual CEO annual incentive payouts for the latest fiscal year.
This report was authored by Thomas Kohn, with oversight from Joe Sorrentino and assistance from Patrick May, Jacob Poarch and Alex Swan.
Tom Kohn
Consultant
Tom Kohn has seven years of experience advising companies on all aspects of executive compensation strategy and design, having worked with clients ranging from pre-IPO to Dow 30 companies across all industries.
Joe Sorrentino
Managing Director
Joe Sorrentino has over 20 years of executive compensation consulting experience. His client assignments have been with both public and privately-held companies in industries including: chemicals, consumer products, financial services, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, real estate/REITS and utilities. His consulting engagements often focus on the development of executive compensation strategy, design of annual and long-term incentive programs, and ISS equity plan modeling, compensation and governance policies.
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