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That's a question the media love to ask when executive compensation lists appear.
Roberto Goizueta, 64, chairman of Coca-Cola, has been near the top of many executive compensation lists for years.
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Our table on page 40 lists executive compensation at the world's 50 largest (by market capitalization) companies outside the U.S. Once again we found this to be no easy task.
PayScale, a compensation information company based in Seattle, assembles lists of executive compensation because businesses need to make comparisons between corporate leaders and understand their markets and competition, the company's senior editorial director, Lydia Frank, told VICE News.
Our table, "The Power & The Pay", contains a list of executive compensation at the world's 50 largest (by market capitalization) companies outside the U.S.
Steve Kichen and Justin Doebele combed through stacks of 20-Fs (see photo) to prepare what we think is the first systematic listing of executive compensation at 150 of the world's biggest companies.
It's hardly a coincidence that all but two of the Japanese companies on our list give no information about executive compensation.
A meaningful new blueprint must bolster the board's independence and require no less transparency from the Big Board, on matters like executive compensation, than it requires from the public companies whose shares it lists.
The list was compiled by Equilar Inc., an executive compensation solutions firm, drawing on 2015 fiscal year proxy statements filed by June 8.
Investors have been howling about executive compensation in corporate America, as recently it's made even A-list Hollywood actors' pay look modest.
In recent weeks, the roundtable has compiled a "wrong" list, with two dozen rules to overhaul or repeal, including executive compensation disclosure and credit rating guidelines.
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