Our Insights

With the pandemic’s disruption continuing in 2021, we discuss three critical compensation issues that management teams and boards face in the first quarter of 2021. Read more

Given the tailwinds behind HCM disclosure, we were not surprised to find that recent proxy statements reflect a surge in the degree and prevalence of HCM details relative to prior years. Read more

Boards are use to working with uncertainty in setting incentive goals, but 2021 is forcing them to raise their game. Read more

Over the fall of 2020, we collected data on ESG & incentives from the Fortune 200. We excerpted from that data a subset of companies that have included a Diversity and Inclusion metric in their incentive designs. Read more

Boards have a lot on their plate right now. They want leaders ready to handle the expanding complexities of corporate life with distributed decision-making, to respond to a rapidly changing business environment. Read more

Semler Brossy Consulting Group has conducted a comprehensive ten-year study on publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) pay programs to understand the evolution of pay trends, emerging practices, and the driving forces underpinning the changes. Specifically, we have analyzed… Read more

Thinking longer-term is difficult when the world turns upside down. Executive pay is no exception. Our focus narrows to the items in front of us and getting past current obstacles. Eventually we focus on getting “back on track” when the existential risk passes or we get used to it, and the new “normal” gets shaped by these prior experiences. Read more

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the key tenets of executive compensation, especially the performance-based incentives that comprise the majority of executive pay. We are seeing a sharply divided corporate world: Pay plans in “essential” industries are thriving and often maxing… Read more