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Over the past eighteen months, discussions on incentive compensation structures have been taking on a different element at a rapid clip in boardrooms across the country – as a result of investor pressures in the energy industry, annual incentive and long-term incentive...

Dear All, Summer is officially here and so is the Texas heat! It’s hard to believe we are halfway through 2018 and soon we will be planning for budgets for the next fiscal year. We have some interesting pieces to share with you in this L-Blast, we hope you find them helpful....

NFP Compensation Consulting provides the salary data for the Dallas Business Journal’s annual analysis on the highest-paid public company CEOs in North Texas. Click here to read the full...

NFPCC's President, Chris Crawford, was recently quoted in a Bloomberg article by Liam Denning entitled, "A Tiny Gas Firm's Big Lesson on Bosses' Pay." Denning explains how Comstock Resources exemplifies the skewed incentives in the E&P...

Dear All, Summer is around the corner as another school year comes to an end and with it the first proxy season requiring CEO pay ratios. As I mentioned in a recent HBJ article, the really interesting use for the pay ratio will come in three to five years, when a given company...

NFPCC was recently invited to participate in Tudor Pickering’s 2018 Hotter N’ Hell Conference. Dan Pickering quizzed NFPCC’s Chris Crawford on recent executive compensation trends in the energy sector. Here are just a few highlights from that “fireside chat”. Q: It...

Dear All, It’s hard to believe May is just around the corner and proxy season will soon be coming to an end. It has been interesting, to say the least, to see the CEO pay ratio disclosures and the attention they’ve gotten from the media. This may be a potentially...

Non Performance-Based Compensation Factors & Why they Matter Too Add together the volatile ingredients of egregious CEO pay articles, gender pay gaps, say-on-pay votes, CEO pay ratio legislation, media bias, market volatility, compensation lawsuits, collegiate athlete pay...

NFPCC's President, Chris Crawford, shared his thoughts on Tesla's newly-approved pay package: "It appears that Shareholders are okay with huge pay, as long as there is huge performance attached. This approval vote seems to swim counter to the current flow of compensation tides...

Dear All, Spring is finally here and with it the first CEO Pay Ratio disclosures of 2018! Although we are still in the early stages of proxy season, we are already seeing eye-catching data for the newly required pay ratio disclosure. It will be interesting to see how this...

The divisiveness of politics is reaching extremes in today’s climate. It’s incredible how the same story can be told by two different reporters and both will express the exact opposite information as fact. Walter Cronkite famously stated: “We all have our likes and our...

Two debates are currently underway: 1. Should college coaches be paid with lots of zeros and student athletes be paid zero? See the March 1 USA Today article attached. 2. The new 2017 Tax Act will provide a 21% excise tax on any not for profit (University) for paying over $1...

Dear All, It has been a long, cold winter and we are ready for Spring and some much needed sunshine! Proxy season is in full swing and we at NFPCC have been busy helping our public clients with proxy and CD&A disclosures. Compensation decisions don’t end with the numbers...

DOWNLOAD THE WHITEPAPER Updated August 2020 With the passage of the 2017 Tax Act, more scrutiny continues to be applied to not-for-profit organization compensation. This follows recent actions from various state and federal agencies upping the ante on not-for-profit...

This article by Claudia Assis on Honeywell provides a perfect, real-time example for any of our energy clients worried about CEO Pay Ratio disclosure. With figures averaging in the 70s – 80s, the energy industry as a whole will pale in comparison to other sectors. Honeywell is...

Many of you are in the “proxy push” to get the proxy statement filed in the coming months. The amount of detail required, and requested, can make the exercise a challenge for all involved. The question is: Are you spending your time effectively on the right parts? A recent...

We would like to share this article by the Washington Post with our readers, along with insight on the subject of salary shaming from one of NFPCC's founders. Here are 4 “predictions” from our company's President, Chris Crawford, related to CEO Pay and this article: CEO...

Dear All, We are well into the start of the new year and although 2018 has greeted us with some extremely cold temperatures that paralyzed our city for a couple of days, we at NFPCC have hit the ground running and are gearing up for proxy season. In this first L-Blast of 2018...

We would like to share this article written by Dina Gerdeman featured on Harvard Business School's website entitled, "If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer." Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand...

As we all know, both the House of Representatives and Senate voted to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act legislation and sent it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the President’s signature. While it will take more time for the country’s citizens and corporate world alike to truly...

December – a time for reflection on the year that was, review of company performance…and a first look at the latest policy updates from proxy advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”). While it...

The deadline to disclose the CEO Pay Ratio in proxy statements is quickly approaching, contact NFPCC today for assistance in the development of the ratios of how to disclose within the proxy. In the event you have not initiated the CEO Pay Ratio discussion internally, or would...

This is your last chance to participate in NFPCC’s Energy Pay Pulse Survey. It closes Friday, December 15th! At NFPCC, we’ve designed our participant-only 2018 Energy Pay Pulse Survey to concisely and powerfully assess market trends for companies in the energy industry. The...

Dear All, This holiday season we at Longecker & Associates are reminded of how truly blessed we are to watch those we advise make a difference in their companies, community and many more areas. In the spirit of advising, we have some great articles to share with you all...

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Executive compensation practice and application is continually developing based on proxy advisory firm...

Dear All, It’s hard to believe the holidays are upon us, but what an exciting time it is for our great city of Houston as the Astros compete for their first World Series title! We may be champions by the time this hits your inbox, but whether we win or not, we are proud of...

There was an article titled “Decoding CEO Pay” recently published in Harvard Business Review, and in our opinion here at NFP Compensation Consulting, Messrs. Pozen and Kothari have some valid points, and many that are not so valid. It appears they found a few unique, obscure...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) launched a two-week consultation on potential updates to its benchmark voting policy for 2018. The comment period will allow all interested parties – including companies, investors, advisors, and others – to provide their perspective...

ISS published its annual post-season report on compensation results and trends last month, and this article from Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation summarizes their findings. Here are some main points: Say-on-pay support reached its...

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but to serve others at whatever cost.” - ARTHUR ASHE Dear All, That quote holds true even weeks after the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Harvey and reminds us...

It’s that time of year again as we enter the final quarter of a compensation cycle and the beginning of a new football season, with renewed hopes that this is your team’s year. With this entry into salary planning time for the general employee population, HR departments are...

We found this great article written by Business Wire, and we wanted to share it with our readers: Activist Investor Challenges Executive Pay Accounting at T-Mobile July 31, 2017 - WASHINGTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Earlier today, the CtW Investment Group petitioned the SEC to...

Just last month, NFPCC’s “CEO Pay Ratio - Winter is Coming” article summed up the latest on the controversial pay ratio rule. This month, we dive into a related subject by taking a peek back in time to the mid-1970s. This past week, a 1977 Wall Street Journal article was...

NFP Compensation Consulting performed a detailed study of compensation awarded to chief executives at North Texas' largest publicly traded companies, based on 2016 revenue. This article written by Karen Robinson-Jacobs discuss the main trends found in our study and features...

“Winter is coming” – a household phrase for those familiar with the Game of Thrones television series and book adaptation. Applied in the context of corporate issuers – CEO Pay Ratio is coming! Are you prepared? Are you familiar with how to run the calculation? Do you...

Chain Restaurant Total Rewards Association's 2017 Annual Conference  Hilton Gaslamp 401 K St. San Diego, CA 92101 Session 1: Roundtable: What Reward Data is Important to You? July 26, 2017 3:00pm Speakers: Liz Mayo, Director, NFP Compensation Consulting and Susan Douglas,...

Federal legislation impacts all citizens. This is especially the case for rewards professionals, as they must navigate and implement rewards programs that are subject to new legislation once it becomes law. Last spring, when WorldatWork held its first Legislative Summit in...

Our survey team at NFPCC has designed an incentive compensation survey for the Oil & Gas industry to provide competitive market practices in both annual and long-term incentive compensation plan designs. Specifically, the survey will report on incentive plan eligibility,...

While CEO pay has been a hot topic for many years, it has come back into the spotlight after the House of Representatives recently voted to repeal the Dodd-Frank legislation. Critics are complaining that transparency is necessary to lower CEO pay, but we are sharing this Fortune...

NFP Compensation Consulting' President, Chris Crawford, was quoted in this recent article from the Houston Business Journal discussing why it "pays" to live in Houston. Written by Jack Witthaus, the article highlights various roles and expert rationale on why they either earn...

Carefully drafted incentive compensation plans can improve executive loyalty. It's a good idea to make sure your executives are protected, and there are a lot of variables to consider in putting together incentive compensation plans. This article discusses options like cash or...

There's a new revenue recognition standard that could affect compensation and bonus plans. These plans are made over many years, and the ways of measuring and the timing of recognition of revenue change. Determining compensation incentives that reward real growth will require...

On March 13, 2017, Fortune.com published an article comparing compensation of Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s CEO, and her replacement, Thomas J. McInerney. This article, titled “Yahoo’s new Male CEO Will Make Double Marissa Mayer’s Salary,” reports limited information and...

One of the biggest issues facing boards today is setting goals for incentive plans. How do companies find that balance between motivating executives, aligning with the company's strategic goals, and satisfying shareholders? This article by ClearBridge analyzed the goals for...

We found this article and thought our readers might be interested in why executive pay gets a bad rap. The media typically looks at a total compensation number and reports it without the appropriate context, so it’s easy to understand why executive pay is often...

This article is about executive compensation being highly controversial with most Americans feeling that CEO compensation among large publicly traded corporations is a problem. This article goes in depth to discuss how executive compensation practices have changed in the recent...

An article was recently published regarding the CEO of a not for profit, Health Care and Rehabilitation Services. Judith Hayward, the CEO, is reported to have received a $650,000 retirement package after 19 years of service. The author highlights the problematic excessive...

We came across a recent report that we thought would be interesting to our readers. With the debate growing on whether or not TSR measures are the best approach for performance-based long-term incentives, this study highlights and discusses some other metric alternatives and...

While pay isn’t the only way to attract, retain, and motivate employees, the demand for transparency from shareholders and increased regulations have put executive pay under more scrutiny than ever before. This article reinforces that properly designed pay packages are...

NFP Compensation Consulting' President, Chris Crawford, was quoted in the Houston Chronicle's recent article entitled, Four Houston Oil Companies Lifed CEO Pay in 2016. He states, "2017 Proxy statements are being filed, disclosing executive compensation for the last year. Trends...