Companies Are Increasingly Using Non-Financial Goals For Executive Compensation
Rupert Hargreaves2021-05-14T02:33:56-04:00
Executive compensation has always been a difficult topic and as executive wages have grown rapidly since the financial crisis, while the wages of the average worker have stagnated, the debate around executive compensation has only become fiercer.
Companies have responded to the growing chorus of criticism by allocating a higher portion of executive compensation to stock price performance, the belief being that if managers manage to create value for stockholders, a higher salary is easily justifiable.
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