Source: Accountemps, survey of 1,400 CFOs from U.S. companies with more than 20 employees, Menlo Park, California, www.accountemps.com
Source: IRS's electronic newsletter Digital Dispatch, www.irs.ustreas.gov .
Top managers no longer boast of their stock-option grants, and the downturn in equity markets is just one reason why. Three new studies of executive compensation and motivation reveal what companies and their senior staff expect from each other when no one knows what tomorrow will bring.
In a survey of 1,400 CFOs, respondents ranked the factors involved in deciding whether to accept a job offer. The primary consideration, after salary and traditional benefits, was
CEOs’ compensation seems to have become more closely linked to how well their companies fare, according to a survey of 350 large U.S. corporations.
Senior finance officers at 55 large service and industrial companies (averaging $18.5 billion in revenues) received 1999 pay packages consisting largely of options and other performance-based forms of compensation.
