WSJ: Survey of CEO Compensation

JoAnn Lublin, of the Wall Street Journal, explores CEO compensation and benefits. Ms. Lublin argues that "directors are increasingly exercising more clout in setting CEO compensation. And in some cases, the boss is actually feeling a little pain."

Read this 4/14/08 Wall Street Journal article.

Goldman Pay Tops Bear Stearns's Slumping Market Value

Goldman Sachs set aside $16.9 billion to pay salaries, benefits, and bonuses, according to the company's third-quarter earnings report. This is enough to buy Bear Stearns Cos., which is the stock market values at $14.7 billion.

Bloomberg.com reports that "the figures demonstrate how the industry's fortunes diverged this year during the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and a credit-market contraction that saddled the biggest lenders and brokerages with at least $40 billion of writedowns and losses."

Read more of this 11.07.07 Bloomberg article.

WSJ article: Bonus Pain Is Dish Still Served Bold

"Two compensation experts are set to release projections for bonus payments this year on Wall Street, and the numbers aren't pretty. One executive-search company, Options Group, projects bonuses will decrease 5% to 10% from last year, the first overall drop in five years.

Compensation consultant Johnson Associates has a rosier view, saying Wall Street bonuses will be flat, thanks to a relatively strong stock market and big profit gains in the first half of the year."

Read more of this 11.07.07 Wall Street Journal article by Aaron Lucchetti.

Executive Pay Rises 4.6%

The September 20, 2007 issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy analyzes the results of the annual study of compensation paid to the leaders of the nation's biggest nonprofit groups.

Compensation growth for CEO's outpaced inflation, survey finds
By Noelle Barton and Peter Panepento

Compensation for the leaders of the nation's largest nonprofit organizations rose at more than twice the rate of inflation last year, even in the face of intensifying public and government scrutiny, according to The Chronicle's 15th annual survey of executive compensation and benefits.

Read more on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website.