An evaluation of whether our senior executive compensation packages (including, but not limited to, options, benefits, perks, loans and retirement agreements) are 'excessive' and should be modified.
Under this new regulatory regime, senior analysts with compensation packages set during the 1990's boom have become expendable, bankers and research officials say.
In 2009, amid a widespread public outcry over sky-high pay on Wall Street, Mr. Blankfein and other senior Goldman executives received compensation packages valued at $9 million each.
Lastly, the board reviews and approves all major compensation packages for senior administrators.
The financial-reform bill that President Obama signed earlier this week contains a measure that would allow stockholders to vote on the compensation packages of senior executives.
LONDON — Shareholders, angered by lofty executive pay at a time of dwindling earnings, turned their wrath on Royal Dutch Shell on Tuesday, voting against compensation packages for senior managers.
Longstanding tensions among parishioners at the renowned Riverside Church erupted again this week as a group of congregants went to court to stop the installation of a new senior pastor whose compensation package, they say, exceeds $600,000 a year.
The use of options is pervasive in the compensation packages of other senior executives, according to the survey, and has reached at least half the total pay for chief financial officers and the like for the first time.
In recent years, compensation packages for CEOs and other senior corporate executives have been criticized for both their high level and their growth, often despite poor company performance.
Despite its countless failures, FINRA's board has approved outrageous compensation packages for the organization's senior executives.
