Trends Affecting Compensation in Finance & Accounting

Trends Affecting Compensation in Finance & Accounting

The demand for skilled accounting and finance professionals remains high. While intense hiring competition and recruiting challenges persist, retention concerns are top of mind, as well. In fact, many managers are now worried about their ability to keep their current...
Benchmarking Your Bank: How Leadership Priorities Change

Benchmarking Your Bank: How Leadership Priorities Change

While some issues are of near universal concern among financial services organizations, some concerns vary by size of institution. For example, according to the 2017 Financial Institutions Compensation and Benefits Survey conducted by Crowe Horwath LLP, larger banks...
New CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules

New CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules

CEO compensation will continue to be a hot topic in 2017. Directors will need to ensure that public companies comply with the new CEO pay ratio disclosure rules. These rules will require public companies report total compensation of the CEO as well as the median...
CEO Pay and Presidential Influence Grows

CEO Pay and Presidential Influence Grows

The top paid CEOs in the country are meeting with President Trump. Is the goal to roll back Dodd-Frank regulations? With the stock market surging since President Trump taking office, it isn’t a surprise that CEO pay has followed. With low unemployment numbers...
Association CEO Pay Continues to Rise

Association CEO Pay Continues to Rise

Since Great Recession, association CEO salary survey shows 5.5 percent gain in pay for association execs, 5.7 percent at professional societies. The Association CEO salary report captures data from fiscal years ended in 2015 and 2016, using the latest tax filings...
CEO Compensation Packages See Largest Increase in Years

CEO Compensation Packages See Largest Increase in Years

A new compensation report looks at CEO pay at 500 large, U.S.-based companies trading on one of the major U.S. stock exchanges. The 5 year study found that median CEO compensation reached $11 million in 2016, up over 6 percent and the largest increase seen in years....