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¶ … Components of an Executive Compensation Plan
There are five basic components of an executive compensation plan:
Basic salary: although formal job evaluation still plays a crucial role in determining executive base salary, other sources tend to be more important. Most important is the opinion of a compensation committee, usually composed of the organization's board of directors. In most cases, the compensation committee takes over some information analysis previously done by the chief human resource manager (Samsa & Scheidt, 2013). This goes as far as analyzing performance records and salary survey data for executives of comparable firms. Executive compensation committees use the approach of identifying the main competitors and setting the executive's compensation at a level between the worst and best of these comparison teams.
Bonuses or short-term incentives: in most cases, annual bonuses are essential in executive compensation and are fundamentally designed to encourage better performance. Strikingly, the popularity of this compensation approach has been rapidly increasing. Currently, bonuses are awarded to almost 90% of the executives (Henderson, 2006).
Capital appreciation and long-term incentives: today, long-term incentives contribute about forty percent of total executive compensation, up from thirty percent a decade ago. The executive...
A stock option refers to the right to buy a defined amount of stock at a stipulated price over a given period based on certain eligibility requirements (Samsa & Scheidt, 2013).
Executive benefits: because many benefits are linked to income level such as disability, life insurance and pension plans, typically, executives tend to receive higher benefits than other workers do. Besides the typical benefits, a number of executives are given additional exclusions from deductibles for health care costs, life insurance, and supplementary pension income that exceed the maximum permitted limit under employment guidelines for qualified pension plans (Henderson, 2006).
Perks: these are tied to ranks. Life at the top comes with its own rewards meant to satisfy various executive needs. They include internal rewards that offer a little luxury while the executive is inside the company. Examples include an executive dining room, a luxury office, and special parking. The second perk is categorized as company-related perks meant for business conducted externally (Samsa & Scheidt, 2013). They include payment of hotel, airplane, resort, and auto expenses. The final segment is known as the personal perk including aspects like legal and personal counseling, free home improvements and repair, low-cost loans, expenses for…
References
Henderson, R.I. (2006). Compensation management in a knowledge-based world (10th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Samsa, M.K., & Scheidt, K.S. (2013). International employee equity plans: Participation beyond borders. The Hague [u.a.: Kluwer Law International.
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