Research Services

In the space of only a few years, executive compensation has shifted from a well-known, but largely unpublicized, topic to a political and media whirlwind. If you need more data to support the fundamentals of your executives' compensation packages, Equilar can help. Get reports on salaries, bonuses, and equity awards for your firm's peer group, or see data on companies by revenue, S&P size, industry, and more.

Benefit and perquisite packages for executives have drawn particular scrutiny in recent times. The best strategy for constructing a well–reasoned, thoughtful perquisite package is evaluating the packages of your peers. Whether you're interested in aircraft privileges, personal security, physicals, or tax gross–ups, our researchers can provide a picture of the current state of perquisite awards.

Over the past decade, clawback policies have gone from rarity to requirement, with the Dodd-Frank Act now requiring them for public companies. Make sure your clawback policy is airtight by reviewing the clawback segments of CD&As across your peer group. Need to write a clawback portion of your CD&A for the first time? Equilar offers a curated collection of best–practice clawback statements hand–selected by our researchers.

Shareholders have exerted increasing pressure for director/executive interests to be aligned with their own. This pressure has led, in part, to the increased use of stock ownership guidelines and holding requirements for executives and board members. The ownership-guideline trend, in conjunction with improved transparency in corporate-governance disclosure, has generated a wealth of new information on the prevalence and design of stock ownership policies. Our reports delve into disclosure statements, determining the common trends in either executive or director stock ownership guidelines.

The current climate of compensation has proven that a company's board of directors can receive as much scrutiny as its executives. Whether you're benchmarking compensation for a chair, researching the pay for committee members, or addressing potential conflicts of interest, Equilar can provide answers to your board-related queries.