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July 7, 2015

Studies: CEO Pay Rises in 2014

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Here’s this year’s flurry of media articles about the proxy season:

WSJ’s “How Much the Best-Performing and Worst-Performing CEOs Got Paid”
NY Times’ “For the Highest-Paid C.E.O.s, the Party Goes On
NY Times’ “200 Highest-Paid CEO Rankings
Tower Watson’s “Total CEO Pay in Major U.S. Companies Increased 12.1% in 2014”
Equilar/Associated Press’s “Pay Study”
CNBC’s “Your pay raise this year: 3%, but the CEO’s? 12.7%”
Tower Watson’s “A Closer Look at Last Year’s 12% Growth in Total Pay for U.S. CEOs”
Forbes’ “Billionaire CEO Paychecks 2014”

Also check out this new study entitled “When Less Is More: The Benefits of Limits on Executive Pay“…