SEC Proposes “Pay Versus Performance” Rule
On April 29, 2015, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission proposed requiring U.S. public companies to disclose the relationship between executive compensation and the company’s financial performance. The proposed “pay versus performance” rule, one of the last Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking responsibilities for the SEC, mandates that a company provide, in any proxy or information statement:
- A new table, covering up to five years, that shows:
- compensation “actually paid” to the CEO, and total compensation paid to the CEO asreported in the Summary Compensation Table;
- average compensation “actually paid” to other named executive officers, and averagecompensation paid to such officers as reported in the Summary Compensation Table; and
- cumulative total shareholder return (TSR) of the company and its peer group; and
- Disclosure of the relationship between:
- executive compensation “actually paid” and company TSR; and
- company TSR and peer group TSR.
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