‘OBSESSION’ WITH STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

When LinkedIn announced that it sold to Microsoft for $26.2 billion, the New York Times unveiled the “unspoken reason” behind the deal:  LinkedIn’s “reliance--some might say overreliance--on stock-based compensation.”

In 2015, LinkedIn had $510 million stock-based compensation expense, which represents 17 percent of its net revenue.

IRS Section 457(f) Proposed Regulations for Deferred Compensation of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Worth the Wait

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued long-anticipated proposed regulations governing Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 457(f), which applies to nonqualified, unfunded deferred compensation plans or arrangements established by state and local governments and tax-exempt employers. The proposed regulations and related proposed regulations under Code Section 409A were published in the Federal Register on June 22, 2016.

CEO pay takes small haircut

Chief executive officers of the biggest publicly traded companies in the U.S. are still bringing home multi million-dollar paychecks.

They were just slightly smaller in 2015 than in 2014.

How to structure competitive executive compensation packages

Finding great candidates to fill executive positions is inherently difficult. Though quality candidates can be found, companies tend to lose their top pick because they can’t meet a candidate’s compensation expectations.

“Companies often enter into an executive search intending to construct a competitive compensation package for the right candidate,” says Tim Conti, managing partner at ON Partners. “But when it comes time to make an offer, the hiring company balks because an overly generous offer could disrupt the internal equity of compensation packages. That logic is irrelevant to the candidate.”

Is It Ever OK to Quit on the Spot?

For almost all of us, there comes a moment when we are tempted to quit our jobs on the spot.

A growing number are actually doing it, many employers say.

Some bosses blame young employees who feel frustrated by limited prospects or have little sense of attachment to their workplace. But employment experts say some older workers are quitting without notice as well. They feel overworked or unappreciated after years of laboring under pay cuts and expanded workloads imposed during the recession.

​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

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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)