A systematic comparison of disclosures in proxies is time-consuming; bonus terms are not always reduced to easily searched charts or tables.
Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival emerging markets bank, last week suffered the biggest revolt on a pay policy so far when 41% of shareholder votes opposed its proposed bonus terms for top executives.
The figure includes salary, bonus, long term incentives and pensions.
Thus, phylogenetic support for conservation of secondary structure is included only as a small bonus energy term.
Directors' contracts have been decorated with so many non-salary baubles – annual bonuses, medium-term incentives, long-term incentives – that recruitment and retention will never be a problem.
But once bonus, long-term incentive plan and pensions were added, the average reward for a FTSE 100 boss last year was more than £4m.
To have an intensivist (an intensive care specialist) virtually at the bedside is a real bonus in terms of patient care".
The FSA has broadened its original ambitions on pay to "wages, bonuses, long-term incentive plans, options, hiring bonuses, severance packages and pension arrangements".
This article was amended on 1 April 2016 to change, in two places, the phrase "took home" to "were paid", because the related figures are for gross remuneration, including salary, bonuses, long-term awards and pension contributions.
Programs that align employees' compensation – merit increases, bonuses, long-term incentives – to their performance have proven to be very effective in driving actual performance.
