Pay and Performance Alignment
We Wrote the Book on Pay and Performance Alignment
Farient Advisors has always advocated that pay and performance be aligned and disclosed. In fact, at the onset of the Dodd-Frank legislation in the US, our CEO published the definitive work on pay and performance alignment. That book, Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay (Jossey-Bass, 2010), is particularly relevant today as the compensation of executives is increasingly linked to stakeholder incentives.
Highly Paid Doesn’t Mean Over Paid
Over the years, we have found that being highly paid doesn’t always mean overpaid. In fact, it’s often not the level of pay at issue; it’s a lack of alignment. When pay and performance move with one another, pay is reasonable relative to the size, industry, and results of the company.
This service includes:
We take peer group development to a new level by not only evaluating size and industry, but also conducting an in-depth analysis of the client’s business model to determine potential peers
Market pay provides input into but does not dictate pay decisions. Our analysis goes beyond the data to provide a forward-looking view of compensation based on multiple inputs including market dynamics
Pay and performance are two sides of the same coin. To that end, we benchmark performance including market, financial, and sustainability factors to assess program design, pay leverage, and realizable pay
Using Farient’s proprietary Performance Alignment Reports™ as well as other diagnostic tools, we assess the strength of the relationship between pay and performance to inform pay program design and actions
Farient goes beyond comparative benchmarking to recommend pay policies. This process considers each company’s values, culture, and strategic objectives while also weighing macro trends, regulatory context, risk, and the alignment between executive and shareholder/stakeholder perspectives
Farient assesses whether the compensation system encourages undue risk-taking using its proprietary quantitative model and our 16-point qualitative analysis
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Let us know how we can help you think differently about executive compensation and its alignment with performance.
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