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2024 Top 250 Annual Incentive Plan Report
Research Report | By Jose Furman, Ian Kim, Michael Kenney
FW Cook’s 2024 Annual Incentive Plan Report provides a comprehensive review of the annual incentive plans of the top 250 largest companies in the S&P 500 by market capitalization. Specifically, this report examines trends in financial and non-financial metrics, goal setting practices, and actual payouts, comparing findings over 2-year and 5-year periods, which coincide with our 2022 and 2019 reports. ESG trends are analyzed based on findings from the last 3 years, corresponding with FW Cook’s 2023 and 2022 Use of ESG in Incentive Plans Reports.
Jose Furman
Principal
Jose Furman’s primary responsibilities include conducting market research and analyzing pay levels, designing incentive plans, and examining market trends. Representative projects include leverage performance unit modeling, extensive pay-for-performance analyses, realizable compensation, and new-hire CEO recruiting compensation packages.
Ian Kim
Consultant
Ian Kim joined the firm in 2022. He has worked with both late-stage pre-IPO and mature publicly-traded clients, primarily in the technology and life sciences industries. Prior to FW Cook, Ian was an executive compensation consultant at Compensia.
Additional Publications
By Ian Kim
September 23, 2024
2024 Top 250 Annual Incentive Plan Report
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