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October 12, 2018

Say-on-Pay & Equity Plans: Voting Trends

Liz Dunshee

This 26-page memo from Willis Towers Watson is full of graphics about this season’s executive pay votes, including:

– Trends in say-on-pay failures & average support

– Correlation between proxy advisor recommendations & say-on-pay outcomes

– Reasons for negative say-on-pay recommendations

– Impact of say-on-pay failures on director elections

– Stats for equity plan recommendations & votes

– Typical say-on-golden-parachute outcomes