TixToGo offered employees their deferred salaries in the form of fully-vested stock or cash (their choice), contingent on the company's ability to land financing.
In 1954, workers' deferred wages in the form of pension assets totaled $90 billion.
So should deferred compensation, in the form of larger Social Security checks at retirement.
They earn Social Security's life insurance protection, long-term disability protection, and deferred compensation in the form of retirement income.
In addition, the bill limits deferred compensation, usually in the form of company stock, to $1 million.
Not only have they enabled investors to avoid paying for their poor decisions; they have also given overpriced southern European countries the opportunity to defer real depreciation in the form of a reduction of relative prices of goods.
That is because most bonuses now are deferred, and are often paid in the form of stock, so they can easily be retracted.
They will be paying for it for years in the form of deferred salary payments to their players, but the Diamondbacks won the World Series.
Public employees' wages are generally lower than private-sector workers, and so they have been afforded some type of equity in the form of deferred compensation, such as retirement benefits.
A recent report by the Institute of International Finance, a lobbying group, and Oliver Wyman, a consulting firm, found that three-quarters of firms asked said they now took risk into account when calculating bonuses, and that 39% of banks' aggregate bonus pools was in the form of deferred compensation, not cash.How useful all this is remains to be seen.
