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Maintaining Competitive and Equitable Compensation Programs

Importance of Reviewing Compensation Programs Routine compensation reviews, particularly for a whole company population, aid in assuring the organization is offering competitive compensation packages that can attract and retain top talent. By regularly reviewing...

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Webinar – Turning Carrots into Karats: Trends in Attracting and Retaining Executives

May 25, 2023 | 10:00 AM CT Join NFPCC Practice Leader, Tyler Brown in this informative session covering the latest trends and key concepts in executive compensation across all industries. He'll also explain how to develop effective retention strategies focused around a...

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NFP Compensation Insights | April 2023

SUBSCRIBE TO NFP COMPENSATION INSIGHTS » Staying Ahead of Rising Compensation Challenges Boards and management teams are facing an increasingly demanding environment when it comes to compensation-related issues. Inflation, a tight labor market...

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Rising Compensation Challenges and How to Mitigate Them

Inflation, threats of recession, and high employee turnover are just a few of the issues Boards and management teams must contend with in 2023. These challenges are coupled with increased regulations, continued shareholder institution noise, and the SEC continuing to impose...

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NFP Compensation Insights | March 2023

SUBSCRIBE TO NFP COMPENSATION INSIGHTS » The Evolving Role of the Compensation Committee The role of the compensation committee continues to evolve and grow in complexity. Members can now expect to have more responsibilities as their roles expand into...

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Banks Need a Game Plan to Keep Your Best People

Bank Compensation and Benefits Study identifies concerns and solutions Today's competitive and ever-changing banking industry demands focus on attracting and retaining top performers as an essential tool for success. It's no surprise the 2022 TBA Bank Compensation and...

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NFP Compensation Insights | February 2023

SUBSCRIBE TO NFP COMPENSATION INSIGHTS » Pay Transparency Laws Pay transparency laws continue to gain momentum as more states are now requiring employers to disclose salary ranges. These laws have been enacted as part of the efforts to achieve greater...

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NFP Compensation Insights | January 2023

SUBSCRIBE TO NFP COMPENSATION INSIGHTS » Annual Incentive Payouts and TSR - Is There a Link? It's the start of the new year and companies are preparing their salary budgets and planning for annual incentive bonuses. Traditionally, it's known that...

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Should TSR Performance Be Accounted for in Annual Incentive Plans?

It’s that time of year again as calendar year organizations begin to finalize their respective annual incentive/bonus payouts. Within this context, many board members and directors, in their totality, are wrestling with investor perspectives and pre-determined performance...

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NFP Compensation Insights | November 2022

Compensation Risk Assessments As we near closer to the 2023 proxy season, preparations are underway as public companies gather requirements for various compensation-related disclosures. Among them are the results of a compensation risk assessment. The SEC...

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Compensation Risk Assessments

Incentive compensation holds an important yet unique place within a company’s pay program initiatives. Both long and short-term incentive plans should be designed to balance attracting and retaining top-level talent in conjunction with motivating behaviors to achieve a...

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NFP Compensation Insights | October 2022

Executive Retention Strategies By now, we are all well aware of the high turnover rates in the employee population and the Great Resignation phenomenon. Companies have been implementing creative strategies for attraction and retention to deal with this ongoing...

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Executive Retention Strategies in a Turnover-Heavy Market

“Where have all the people gone?” An HR executive recently posed this question, a question to which an answer is unclear. He was right, where are they? Turnover is on the rise and hiring more difficult than ever. There just doesn’t seem to be a pool of talent, and...

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Our Rebrand is Complete!

We are excited to announce our rebrand as NFP’s Compensation Consulting practice is complete! Our integration with NFP allows us to expand our capabilities and create new paths for collaboration that elevate value for our current and future clients. While things have...

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NFP Compensation Insights | September 2022

The L-Blast is Now NFP Compensation Insights! The SEC's Final Ruling on Pay vs. Performance Last month, the SEC released final rules on the pay for performance disclosure requiring public companies to submit additional information regarding executive compensation...

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Oh, Pay vs. Performance! Oh, My Goodness!

Pay vs. Performance? “Okay, it’s happening, everyone stay calm.” – Michael Scott Last month, after nearly a decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final Pay vs. Performance rules (“Final Rules”). These Final Rules, while more complex than...

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NFP Compensation Insights | August 2022

The L-Blast is Now NFP Compensation Insights! Four-Day Workweeks are Getting More Attention As companies continue to struggle with attraction and retention challenges, employers are exploring more creative options to entice workers. Remote work, flexible...

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Four-day Workweeks are Gaining Traction

Despite remote working exponentially increasing over the last two years, the standard workweek has continued to be five days, which became the standard roughly 80 years ago. You might be wondering why five-day workweeks are in place and the answer is fairly straightforward:...

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NFP Compensation Insights | July 2022

The L-Blast is now NFP Compensation Insights! NFPCC Conducts CEO Pay Analysis of North Texas' Top CEOs As we dive into the results of this year's proxy season, NFP Compensation Consulting recently conducted an analysis assessing the compensation packages for Chief...

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Following Inflation & Compensation

It has been decades since Americans have experienced record high inflation. Macroeconomic conditions, monetary policy, and a long list of other factors have caused inflation to rise around 8.6% over the last 12 months, and the consensus is inflation will continue to trend...

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The L-Blast | May 2022

A Look Into the 2022 Proxy Season As predicted, this year's proxy season is proving to be an especially active one, particularly in the areas of environmental and social issues. As annual meetings wind down, we have a good idea of how trends affecting these issues are...

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2022 Proxy Season: A Peek into Developing Trends

As we hit the midpoint of the 2022 proxy season, shareholders and investors continue to shift focus towards untraditional topics compared to the prior year's proxy seasons. At the forefront of these conversations sits ESG (environmental, social, and governance) and human...

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The L-Blast | April 2022

ESG & Executive Compensation Linking environmental, social, and governance metrics to executive compensation is becoming increasingly prevalent. Pressures from investors, shareholders, environmental and rights advocates, and the government are pushing companies...

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The L-Blast | March 2022

Compensation for a Multigenerational Workforce Employers are currently facing challenges on all levels. Among them are human capital concerns regarding attraction and retention, and their direct link to compensation and the total rewards landscape. Today's workforce is...

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Compensation for a Multigenerational Workforce

In times of economic uncertainty and heightened retention concerns across all employers, utilizing capital to its highest utility is of the utmost importance. NFPCC has been diligently focused on the strategic use of compensation within client organizations. Specifically,...

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The L-Blast | February 2022

New Focus on Executive Pay for Performance Executive compensation and pay for performance have always been a hot topic, but the SEC's recent reopening for comments on its pay versus performance rule has put renewed focus on this highly debated issue. A push from the SEC...

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Renewed Focus on Executive Pay for Performance

It’s been nearly twelve years since The Dodd-Frank Act was enacted as a direct response to the financial crisis of 2008. The Act holds many sections detailing regulations to be enforced; however, a recent resurgence of proposed pay for performance mandates from 2015...

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The L-Blast | January 2022

Inflation and Executive Compensation It's a new year and as inflation continues to rise, budgetary concerns regarding compensation take center stage. We have been writing on this topic for several months, focusing primarily on the effects on salaries at the employee...

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Rising Inflation and Executive Salary Increases

Salary budget planning for 2022 has been a hot discussion as companies moved to finalize budgets for this year. In general, salary forecast trends for 2022 are currently tracking to be about one percent higher than previous projections earlier in 2021. Recent pulse surveys...

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The L-Blast | December 2021

Compensation Strategies & Trends for 2022 The end of the year is upon us and planning for 2022 is underway. How can organizations navigate the unprecedented workforce challenges we are seeing? Tight labor markets, inflation, covid concerns, and various compensation issues...

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The L-Blast | November 2021

Combating the Great Resignation The Great Resignation continues to exacerbate workforce concerns with no end in sight. As more and more companies struggle with retaining and attracting needed talent, it has become critical to dive into the root causes of this phenomenon...

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Strategies to Combat the Great Resignation

The employment market reflects drastic changes following the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 4.4 million workers left their jobs in September of this year with no indication of slowing. The old-school model of employee loyalty to a firm has been...

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2022 Proxy Season: A Look Ahead to Executive Compensation Issues and Considerations

Next year's proxy season is around the corner and it's a good idea to start preparing, taking important considerations into account regarding executive compensation. In this article, Winston & Strawn share key matters to consider as public companies begin planning,...

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The L-Blast | October 2021

Reassessing Compensation Peer Groups Peer group selection has always played a key role in the executive compensation planning process. While peer group composition may have been somewhat static in previous years, companies are now at a point in which reassessment is...

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Cost-of-living and salary budget adjustments a top concern for compensation planning in 2022

As we near the end of the year, companies are starting to plan their compensation strategy for 2022. A topic that is top of mind is the higher rate of inflation we are experiencing and how cost-of-living salary adjustments will be affected in the coming year. Research shows...

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The L-Blast | September 2021

In this month's L-Blast, we turn our attention to a topic that is quickly becoming top of mind for many companies and has gained quite a bit of media attention over the past few months. We are talking about a phenomenon we've come to know as The Great Resignation. What...

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