February 27, 2014
Pay Ratio Miscellany: Today’s Shareholder Proposals & Disclosures
– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com
With over 120k comments received by the SEC, the pay ratio proposal officially has garnered the 2nd highest number of comments in the SEC’s history. Just throwing that out there. For an example of a company that has used internal pay equity for years in setting its senior manager’s pay, check out this blog by Mark Borges, which summarizes the latest disclosures from Whole Foods.
Also, in the shareholder proposals area, some predicted there might be pay cap proposals that use pay ratios as the formula – particularly in light of what happened in Switzerland. This request for no-action relief by 3M bears that out…
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