Dana WhitfieldCRP, GRS

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 4w ago

Relative TSR peer group selection — index or hand-picked peers?

Our committee landed on a curated group with an index as a sanity check. The proxy advisors did not object once we documented the selection criteria.

Posted in Compensation · 4w ago

Aging survey data when the market moves faster than your survey cycle

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Replied to in Compensation · 4w ago

2027 Salary Budget Survey results are available

The technology outlier again. We are holding at 3.5% and carving out a separate pool for the engineering ladder; curious whether anyone has managed that without

Replied to in Job Architecture & Careers · 4w ago

Three years into a global job architecture rollout — what I'd do differently

The local title layer point is painfully familiar. We allowed it for one region and it is now the thing every new country asks for.

Replied to in Compensation · 4w ago

Have you simplified geographic pay differentials since going hybrid?

We went from nine zones to three. Offer acceptance in high-cost metros dipped for about a quarter and then recovered.

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 2mo ago

Sharing the one-page decision record our remuneration committee now uses

We do something similar but less disciplined. The alternatives field is the one I will borrow. Minutes almost never capture what was rejected, and that is the f

Asked in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Long-term incentives in a family-owned group where issuing shares is off the table

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Replied to in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Pre-IPO equity in a PE-backed software business: what happens to the sweet equity at listing?

For the 200 option holders, check what vesting on exit does to your share count and to tax withholding on the day. We had to fund several million in employer so

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Pre-IPO equity in a PE-backed software business: what happens to the sweet equity at listing?

What I wish we had done earlier is the first listed long-term grant. Everyone was so focused on conversion that nobody noticed the top team would have nothing u

Answered in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Benchmarking non-executive director fees for a mutual with no listed peers

✓ Accepted answer · Build it from time commitment rather than from market position. We counted days: board, committees, regulator meetings, preparation. It came to 55 days a year f

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

A one-off award cost us more goodwill with investors than it bought in retention

A slightly different view. Sometimes the award is right and the mistake is the structure. If yours had vested only on delivery of the two mines the executive wa

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Is twelve months' salary and target bonus still normal severance for a listed CFO?

From the German side: a cap of two years' total remuneration is the norm for management board contracts there, and never more than the remaining term. So she is

Asked in Executive Compensation · 3mo ago

Setting a three-year EPS range for PSUs when the order book only covers nine months

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Asked in Executive Compensation · 4mo ago

CEO pay ratio jumped from 58:1 to 94:1 because of one vesting. How are you explaining yours?

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Answered in Executive Compensation · 4mo ago

Should unvested shares count towards an executive shareholding guideline?

✓ Accepted answer · The line most companies draw is whether a performance condition is still outstanding. Performance shares do not count, since they may vest at nothing. Shares th

Replied to in Executive Compensation · 4mo ago

Avoiding a second strike: what our shareholder engagement looked like in practice

How did you handle holders who would not meet? Around a third of our register is passive funds that decline meetings outside a short window and vote on policy.