PM&P on Compensation Planning:

Looking Ahead to Executive Pay Practices in 2010

Compensation Planning: Looking Ahead to Executive Pay Practices in 2010, provides detailed data on how 395 survey participants are addressing the challenges raised by a difficult economic environment and the drive for increased regulatory and shareholder oversight of high-level pay programs. Results are analyzed across a variety of demographic categories, including industry, organization size and financial performance. Among the issues covered:

• Financial performance relative to prior year performance, current budgets, and anticipated peer performance.
• Base salaries.
• Annual incentive program design and payout levels.
• Long term incentive program design and award levels.
• Perquisite program changes.
• Non-qualified deferred compensation and retirement plan modifications.
• Severance and Change-in-Control payment provisions.
• Areas of concern for executive compensation planning in 2010.

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