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October 11, 2013

Pay Ratio Proposal: Chamber & Others Request 60 Day Extension

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

A few days ago, the Chamber of Commerce and 13 other organizations sent this letter to the SEC requesting a 60 day extension of the pay ratio comment deadline. A little early in the comment process in my opinion to seek an extension – but it’s not a surprise given how outspoken some of these groups have been about this provision of Dodd-Frank…

Meanwhile, Towers Watson has these survey results about how respondents felt would be the biggest challenges if the SEC adopted a pay ratio rule (56% concerned with complying; 31% concerned about where ratio stands compared to peers; 21% concerned about explaining process of determination).