In its annual executive compensation report on companies with up to $200 million in revenue, Segal found that the stock-option warriors -- those whose compensation came primarily from stock options -- were in the high-technology area.
In its annual executive compensation report on companies with up to $200 million in revenue, the Segal Company found that the percentage of their own companies' stock owned by chief executives and presidents has dropped significantly since 1993.
For the second consecutive year, the top earner on our executive compensation report was Oracle chief Larry J. Ellison.
Executive compensation reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over the past several months revealed exactly how much companies spend to protect their top executives.
This transparency comes from the combination of new executive compensation reporting requirements and the openness of information flow on the web.
''The problem, however, was that neither company had a financial incentive to assign tougher credit ratings to the very securities that for a short while increased their revenues, boosted their stock prices, and expanded their executive compensation," the report said.
Calculating median worker pay could cost "easily in the millions," said Timothy J. Bartl, general counsel at the Center on Executive Compensation, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported in March.
The board of Citigroup, meanwhile, is expected to decide how to "fine-tune" executive compensation, the newspaper reports.
WALL STREET JOURNAL Protest Brewing at Deutsche Bank | Hermes, the British fund manager, is leading a group of shareholders that is trying to rally opposition to the German lender's supervisory board, protesting that investors were not given the chance to vote on executive compensation, The Financial Times reports.
Swissair does not report executive compensation, but analysts made headlines when they estimated that Philippe Bruggisser, a former chairman and the architect of a failed expansion strategy, was paid $1.4 million a year.
Also, the housing regulator Federal Housing Finance Agency FHFAA) has not considered the factors that might have possibly resulted in reduced executive compensation costs, the review report said.
