Category: Executive Pay
Executive Compensation: Trends and Considerations
Cathryn Edmondson | 31 January 2025
February is often a key time of year for Remuneration Committees to sign off on pay review budgets. If you are finalising your papers or preparing for February meetings, read Cathryn Edmonson’s hot topics on the Remco agenda regarding Executive Remuneration in 2025.
Six compensation strategies to attract and retain talent
Sarah Lardner | 17 January 2025
When designing a compensation and reward strategy, companies usually start by defining their core principles.
What are the key factors affecting executive pay strategies in 2022?
17 March 2022
We know only too well the challenges with wage inflation and hiring of talent right now. Whilst we may think this predominantly impacts low to mid-level roles, the reality is, the same issues extend to Executive level roles too.
ESG metrics in executive pay: creating long term sustainable value for all stakeholders
11 November 2020
Executive Pay | Responsible Reward
Before Covid-19, many organisations looked to the UN Sustainability Goals to provide them with an environmental and societal purpose, but the pandemic has thrown up new challenges, as well as opportunities to make a difference. Sarah Lardner reviews how ESG can be used to best effect within the executive package.
Pay equality: why now is the time to get your house in order
14 July 2020
Executive Pay | Pay Transparency | Pay Fairness | Equal Pay | Covid-19 | Responsible Reward
The long-term picture will only become known with the passage of time, however, whilst business may be a little slower and some of our typical processes postponed, the world will keep turning and a return to a feudalist barter system seems a little unlikely, which is why now is a great time to prepare for the future.
How do you set Exec pay when all normal measures are out the window?
28 April 2020
With the future of the traditional LTIP in doubt right now, this is a real opportunity for Remco’s to support a resetting of Executive Pay and rebuild trust not just within their organisations but also outside them, and fulfil their social responsibility to stakeholders.
Genuine gestures or PR stunt?
03 April 2020
Executive Pay | Bonus | Pay Fairness | Pay & Reward | Business Ethics | Covid-19
Innecto's Justine Woolf explains why headline reports of CEOs taking salary cuts aren't all they appear, and whether football clubs should consider cutting players' pay in line with other staff.
Born in the USA: Lessons on CEO Pay Ratios
18 February 2020
Executive Pay | Pay Transparency | Pay Fairness | Pay & Reward | Communications | Responsible Reward
The UK's first round of reporting CEO pay ratios is on the way - but what lessons should we learn from experiences across the pond? Client Director Judith Moore looks at fairness, narratives, managing stakeholders and the future of disclosing executive pay.
Download our Responsible Reward guide
11 February 2020
Corporate Governance | Executive Pay | Pay Transparency | Pay Fairness | Equal Pay | Gender Pay | Pay & Reward | Measuring pay | Employee engagement | Pay trends | Communications | Business Ethics | HR Ethics | National Living Wage | Recognition | Pension | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
Our aim in producing this guide is to share knowledge around what responsible reward means today and bring it to life with practical examples which you may want to explore at your organisation.
The Pay Trends 2020 white paper is here!
04 February 2020
Executive Pay | HR Reward | Pay Transparency | Reward Consultancy | Gender Pay | Reward Intelligence | Pay trends | National Living Wage | Low Pay | Reward Strategy | Government & Policy
Our white paper has landed! Download via our website to get your essential update on the Reward landscape in 2020 and beyond.
Now that’s what I call blogs! 2019’s greatest hits
17 December 2019
Executive Pay | HR Reward | Remcom | Reward Consultancy | Pay Fairness | Gender Pay Gap | Benefits intelligence | Employee engagement | Analytics | Pay trends | Pay Structure | Pay benchmarking | Flexible Benefits | Ethnicity Pay Reporting
A blog roundup today - our most popular blogs from 2019. Well worth a re-read of your favourites, or a chance to catch up on any you've missed.
Gender pay gap: Why are men still ruling the executive roost, and what can we do about it?
05 November 2019
Executive Pay | Pay Fairness | Leadership | Gender Pay | Pay & Reward | Flexible working | Agile working
A new study shows that having a diverse executive team improves company performance. Yet men still fill the vast majority of executive positions, resulting in a gender pay gap on a national scale. Sarah Lardner asks why is this the case, and what can we do about it?
