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Director Compensation
Pay Planning For CEO Succession
Article | By Daniel Ryterband, Matt Lum for Corporate Board MemberÂ
Aligning pay programs with succession planning can facilitate smooth transitions, protect your leadership pipeline and prevent costly, reactive decisions.
The SEC’s Disclosure Dilemma
Article | Corporate Board Member with FW Cook Thought Leadership by Michael Abromowitz, Jose Furman
What boards need to know about potential changes to compensation disclosure requirements.
Type and Magnitude of Non-Employee Director Compensation Increases – Observations from FW Cook’s 2024 Director Compensation Report
By Tahmid Ali
An analysis of multi-year trends in non-employee director compensation revealed that approximately 35% – 40% of companies made program adjustments in any given year. Most elected to increase the equity…
Weighing Director Pay Deferral Programs
Article | Corporate Board Member with FW Cook Thought Leadership by Ted Simmons, Austin Lee
A look at the pros and cons of adding deferral choices to director compensation programs.
The Direction of Director Pay
Article | Corporate Board Member with FW Cook Thought Leadership by Steven Knotz, Todd Krauser
Director compensation has largely flown under the radar during the last decade, generally escaping the sort of scrutiny and criticism that seems to continually plague executive pay. With ISS beginning to focus on board member compensation, it’s a good time to re-examine pay practices.
Scrutiny and Standardization of Director Pay
Article | The Corporate Board with FW Cook Thought Leadership by Alec Lentz, Kenneth Sparling
With more attention on board pay, programs are becoming more standardized and equity pay is usually in stock awards targeted at specific dollar values. Lawsuits are causing director-specific pay limits to become an emerging best practice.
Recent Facebook Settlement Over Director Pay Could Signal More Litigation Against Directors
Alert | By David Gordon, Bindu Culas
Executive compensation experts were unpleasantly surprised by the settlement in late January of Espinoza v. Zuckerberg, a case challenging the reasonableness of stock awards to Facebook’s non-employee directors. The facts surrounding this settlement create concern that unless a company has a shareholder-approved plan…
2015 Director Compensation Report
Research Report | By Alec Lentz
FW Cook studied non-employee director compensation programs at 300 companies of various sizes and industries. This report summarizes pay levels and program structure. We observe a 4% year-over-year increase in total pay at the median, along with a growing preference for simplicity that began several years ago at large-cap companies and is now common throughout the market.
