A quick plug for Are chief executives overpaid? by Deborah Hargreaves, formerly of the High Pay Centre. Spoiler alert: the answer is YES.

The book is a quick run through what top pay looks like, why it has changed and grown, some of the attempts …Read more…

Everyone knows we should tie executive remuneration to long-term metrics and give shareholders more powers to oversee pay policies, right?
Yeah, except that if we make execs wait for rewards they sharply discount them (if some really put much value on …Read more…

I’ve been banging on for a few years about incentives and motivation. It’s been interesting to watch as the common sense that performance-related pay is A Good Thing has lost legitimacy. However even despite the growing awareness of problems with relyi…Read more…

The news that some companies are sounding out investors about steep increases in base salary in response to longer deferral periods should come as a shock to no-one. Here’s The Grauniad from yesterday:
Some of the UK’s biggest companies are sounding out shareholders about pay rises for their bosses…Read more…