Ontario is proposing an executive compensation cap, at no more than twice the Premier's annual salary of C$418,000, and a two-year pay freeze for managers.

Companies are increasingly producing alternative measures of their top executives' pay, with at least 228 companies mentioning "realizable" or "realized" compensation in proxy materials this year.

TiVo settled its pending patent litigation with Verizon via an agreement where Verizon will pay TiVo $250.4 million through July 2018.

CEOs cannot readily transfer their skills from one company to the other, a study from Charles M. Elson and Craig K. Ferrere noted, rejecting the idea that CEO compensation must be extremely large to retain executives.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's CEO, saw the value of his compensation take a sizable jump in its last fiscal year. He received stock options valued at $96 million during fiscal 2012, which ended in May. That's up from $78 million the year before. Oracle's boa...

Jefferies Group expects to pay less of its revenue to employees over the next two years, after paying 59.6 percent of its revenue in compensation and benefits in the second quarter of this year.

Mandatory age retirement policies may create an obstacle for retaining outside directors.

Impact of final SEC conflict minerals rule uncertain, emails released in Duke Energy CEO controversy, virtual meetings seen to boost engagement, and more Need to Know items.

"Say-on-pay" votes are strongly influencing governance and proxy disclosures, finds a new Meridian Compensation Partners study.

A recent error by Barnes & Noble in its granting of stock options offers some lessons for CFOs and compensation committees.

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Washington, D.C., Sep. 17, 2012 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former director at Port Washington, N.Y.-based consumer electronics retailer Systemax Inc. for fraudulently reaping hundreds of t...

Compensation consultants were very influential compensation plan design, said 86 percent of directors in a new poll conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

The median CFO salary among the S&P 100 was 50.7 percent of the median CEO salary in that group last year, finds a new Mercer study.

Internally promoted CFOs commonly land in the bottom quartile of compensation compared to their peers.

From absenteeism due to illness to the cost of disability and workers’ compensation, poor health costs the U.S. economy more than a half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new study by a nonprofit research organization.

Employee compensation in the Washington, D.C. area increased 2.1 percent, finds Akron.

Directors at J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup are weighing new approaches to executive compensation after a series of management miscues.

Facebook's restricted stock program was a clever solution to the problem of keeping the company private under securities laws, but it left its employees with a tax problem.

J.P. Morgan Chase and Citigroup are considering new approaches to executive compensation after a trading disaster and failed say on pay vote, respectively.

Compensation for workers in the Washington region rose 2.1 percent in 2012 after remaining virtually flat the previous year, a new survey shows.
The median salary increase was the largest the area has seen since 2010, according to data compiled by co...