executive compensation

Companies are publishing new data about pay — comparing the CEO’s compensation to that of the “median” worker.

Today, the typical executive receives two-thirds of his or her pay in stock-based compensation. With the vast majority of pay based on the stock price, all the noise in the boardroom and executive suite is about the stock and total shareholder return, not the long-term investments that are key to achieving goals aligned with environmental and social sustainability — and to identifying future risk.