Say on Pay Reports

This week’s report recaps the 2020 voting trends, which reflected no change in the average Say on Pay vote support for Russell 3000 companies in 2020, despite a significant number of companies disclosing mid-year pay actions. Read more

This week’s report highlights companies with non-calendar fiscal year-end dates between 3/31 and 6/30 that disclosed actions in relation to COVID-19, and the response from shareholders and proxy advisors thus far. Companies will be expected to provide a heavy burden… Read more

We expect that the challenges faced by retailers will persist into next proxy season. Read more

Through May 2, 432 Russell 3000 companies announced or publicly disclosed actions to reduce or differ salaries for Management. Read more

Thus far, 57% of Specialty Retailers, 42% of Hotels and Restaurants, and 58% of Airlines companies in the Russell 3000 have announced pay actions. Read more

This report includes a brand new section covering Executive and Director responses to Covid-19. Read more

147 Russell 3000 companies have held Say on Pay votes thus far in 2020, and the average vote support has been 91.4%. Read more

Average Say on Pay support was 90.5% in 2019 versus 90.2% in 2018, and the failure rate increased to 2.7% from 2.6% over that span. Shareholders have elevated focus on the role of Directors in recent years and taken a… Read more