​Helping your employees understand their equity compensation

Although equity is an increasingly common form of total workplace compensation, many employees do not realize its full value.

In fact, in a recent Schwab survey of 1,000 residents in the San Francisco Bay Area, one third said they receive equity as part of their overall workplace compensation.

Compensation Plans for Customer Success Managers

There’s wide debate in the customer success discipline regarding the best structure for a CSM compensation plan. Typically, I see the following three CSM compensation models:

• Base Only – pure base salary with no bonus or variable component
• Base + Bonus – base salary with a small bonus structure, usually in the form of a Management by Objective (MBO) bonus
• Base + Variable – base salary with a variable component to not only reward for performance, but also to provide more upside for over-achievement against targets.

Equity Compensation Can Help with Overall Financial Plans

Whether it is to fill in the retirement savings gap or part of an overall financial strategy, equity compensation plans are attractive to employees.

Take another look at nonqualified deferred compensation plans

For executives, taking advantage of their company-sponsored, nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plan now could be one of the wiser moves to make for their future well-being.

Hospital execs deserve their compensation: View

While it is fashionable to cast aspersions on high-income earners, the arguments set forth about the compensation levels of area health-care CEOs are misguided and erroneous.

Retail Execs With Compensation Tied to Stocks

Credit Suisse

We analyzed executive compensation in the hardline-retail sector, primarily focused on short-term annual cash incentives, comparing the key metrics used, the changes over the last couple of years, and how that aligns with evolving strategies and delivering short-term shareholder returns.

6 CEOs with excessive executive compensation packages

Yahoo's business troubles not only puts CEO Marissa Mayer under the harsh glare of the shareholder spotlight, it highlights the issue of sky-high executive compensation packages when the CEO is heading for the door.

The new Valeant CEO's pay package is putting the company in serious danger

If you blinked, you may have missed it - a lot of politicians did. (click text to link to full article)

Reasonable Compensation For C Corporation Shareholder-Employees: How Much Is Too Much?

If you decide to set up your business as a C corporation, you have two primary ways of extractingvalue from the business on an ongoing basis: (click text for link to full article)