Sentences with phrase «high executive pay»

Viacom, whose networks include Comedy Central, MTV, and Nickelodeon, has taken much criticism in recent years over its high executive pay even as it struggled with slipping ratings while more consumers ditched pricey cable television subscriptions.

The above chart is pretty striking in that it shows just how much CEO pay has outstripped even the stock market, as higher stock prices are one way in which ever - higher executive pay is justified.

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While not necessarily the primary motivator for everyone, getting a pay raise or promotion is certainly high on the list of objectives for the ambitious, aspiring executive.

The Associated Press declared him the highest - paid chief executive in the U.S. in 2015, earning US$ 94.6 million.

It's not a huge step, but it's hugely symbolic: Royal Bank of Canada says it has begun considering how much lower - ranking employees are paid when it sets salaries for its CEO and other high - placed executives.

American and Delta are in the process of rolling out these fares on flights to Europe, and executives have said they measure its success by the rate of passengers who pay higher fares to avoid it.

The longer chief executives hold the job, a new analysis says, the higher their pay — and the more they take risks that hurt shareholders.

John Hammergren, chief executive of pharmaceutical giant McKesson, made a killer $ 131 million in 2012, compared to the paltry $ 40 million that Frank Stronach, Canada's highest paid (ex) CEO, got.

The new research shows that something different has been happening: Boards have been allowing CEO pay to climb ever higher by offering executives the same number of options year in and year out, regardless of company stock prices.

What's more, one of the women in the Equilar 100, Oracle's (orcl) Safra Catz, tied with her co-CEO, Mark Hurd, for the title of highest paid chief executive, raking in $ 53.2 last year, significantly boosting the women's average.

Gravity was inundated with résumés — 4,500 in the first week alone — including one from a high - powered 52 - year - old Yahoo executive named Tammi Kroll, who was so inspired by Price that she quit her job and in September went to work for Gravity at what she insisted would be an 80 - 85 percent pay cut.

And the man who was once the highest paid executive in the U.S. doesn't like to discuss the old days and decisions he made that led to years behind bars.

Citigroup cut Chief Executive Michael Corbat's pay by about 10 % in 2014, a year in which the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.

Higher taxes on top earners or increased corporate tax rates for firms with very high CEO - to - worker compensation ratios could rein in executive pay without adversely affecting workers or the economy, the report suggests.

NRW Holdings chairman Ian Burston has announced plans to step down, while also announcing a remuneration review that will include chief executive Julian Pemberton, whose annual pay is substantially higher than his peers.

But many of the supposed non-profits charged high fees and paid executives enormous salaries, says Andrew Pizor, a staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Centre, in Washington, D.C. «Some of them weren't even in any semblance non-profit.»

Median pay for the highest - paid female executives at publicly traded companies edged down to $ 13.8 million last year from $ 14.7 million in 2012.

This year's average CEO salary among the top 100 highest - paid executives topped $ 9.5 million, which is 193 times the annual wage of an average Canadian.

Add another one to the list: for one year, it smashed all records for the highest executive compensation in Canada, awarding its former CEO Michael Pearson $ 179 million in company stock, for a total take - home of $ 182 million, more than double paid to the previous year's highest paid CEO, BlackBerry's John Chen.

The challenge claimed that a majority of shareholders did not support the authorization, at the 2013 annual meeting, of an increase in the number of shares used to reward Souki and other executives; the very increase that made Souki the highest paid CEO in America (he received 6.3 million shares in February 2013).

Walker's 2015 compensation of $ 26.6 million is the second highest pay package among all executives at publically traded Canadian firms.

Total pay for top executives in Sweden and Denmark is about 75 percent of the European average, and lower in Norway and Finland, data from management consultancy Hay Group show, a gap compounded by some of the world's highest taxes.

He wanted to study the claim by consultants that executives need to be paid extraordinarily high compensation or else they would migrate to other companies and jurisdictions, which — as it turned out — did not happen, Feinberg said, or is a «myth» as was stated in the U.K. this week.

Some Nordic executives develop a taste for higher pay when posted abroad that can become a problem.

«Most of my executives were females; the highest paid executive in my company was a female, and the others were right next to her.

Entry - level salaries on average increased 3 percent to $ 49,785 a year ago, marking the highest amount of the average base pay for college graduates in a decade.The analysis was conducted by Korn / Ferry International, an executive - search firm in Los Angeles.

Rather than raising corporate tax rates, the Rhode Island legislation, Senate Bill 2796, would give preferential treatment in state contract bids to companies that pay their highest - paid executive no more than 32 times the pay of their lowest - paid full - time employee.

However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

Silicon Valley executives like Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey are going on Buddhist meditation retreats, high - end spas in big cities are installing «meditation pods,» meditation app Headspace has raised $ 75 million, and each year hundreds of Wall Streeters are following Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio's lead and paying almost $ 1,000 to learn Transcendental Meditation.

Software companies had one of the highest percentages of women directors and the lowest of top - paid executives, said study author Amanda Kimball.

The second - highest paid CEO was James Smith of Thomson Reuters Corp. (TSX: TRI), who took home $ 18.8 million, followed by former Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX: TLM) chief executive John Manzoni who pocketed $ 18.67 million in 2012.

Moonves remained among the highest - paid executives in corporate America with a $ 69.3 - million compensation package in 2017, down slightly from the previous year, according to CBS» proxy filed Friday.

This report looks at 2013 compensation levels for Canada's highest paid 100 CEOs and finds that executive pay in Canada has rebounded to its pre-recession glory days.

Hewson was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

These are the 10 highest - paid women CEOs for 2016, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive data firm.

Nooyi was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

Rometty was one of the highest paid CEOs and the top paid female CEO in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

Rosenfeld was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

Mayer was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

Barra was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

Good was one of the highest paid women CEOs in 2016, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

This table and the related tables that follow present the compensation paid for 2007 to Richard M. Kovacevich, Chairman (who also served as CEO until June 2007); John G. Stumpf, President and, since June 2007, CEO; Howard I. Atkins, Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO); and the next three highest paid executive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO); and the next three highest paid executive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, Communityexecutive officers named in these tables: David A. Hoyt, Senior Executive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Wholesale Banking; Mark C. Oman, Senior Executive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Home and Consumer Finance; and Carrie L. Tolstedt, Senior Executive Vice President, CommunityExecutive Vice President, Community Banking.

If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

NEW YORK (AP)-- Here are the 50 highest - paid CEOs of 2013, as calculated by The Associated Press and Equilar, an executive pay research firm: 1.

Most of us are raised to believe that becoming a doctor, lawyer, executive, or other high - paying profession is the only path...

Among HP's peer group companies, HP executives have a higher percentage of performance - based pay, which generally means smaller bonuses and lower overall compensation in years of low performance and higher bonuses and long - term incentive payouts in years of exceptional performance, reflective of the performance achieved.

Plan B calls for giving this money directly to the banks and leading insurance companies, on terms that let them continue paying high executive salaries and dividends to existing shareholders rather than wiping them out as normally happens when an enterprise has Negative Equity.

As in 2010, the HRC awarded named executives a combination of compensation composed of a high percentage of performance - based pay, predominantly in long - term equity compensation.

Our cities and towns require a public service bank that lends at affordable rates rather than at higher rates and fees that support short - term investor profit and excessive executive pay and bonuses.

Lately, the sheer volume of buybacks has prompted complaints among academics, politicians and investors that massive stock repurchases are stifling innovation and hurting U.S. competitiveness — and contributing to widening income inequality by rewarding executives with ever higher pay, often divorced from a company's underlying performance.