January 9, 2012
Survey: Majority of US Companies to Pay Bonuses Equal To – or Larger – Than Last Year
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
Pretty interesting. Here is an excerpt from this Towers Watson press release on this topic:
The Towers Watson survey of 265 midsize and large organizations found 61% expect their total shareholder return for 2011 to decline or remain flat. Meantime, the same number (61%) expect their annual bonus pools for 2011 to be as large or larger than those for 2010. Additionally, 58% expect to fund their annual incentive plans at or above target levels based on their companies’ year-to-date performance. Nearly half (48%) of respondents also expect long-term incentive plans that are tied to explicit performance conditions to be funded at or above target levels based on year-to-date performance.