Table 2
Changes in real compensation by fifth and component, in thousands (2015$) 2014–2015
| Real compensation | Salary | Bonus | Stocks | Options | Long-term and incentive | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panel A: Among firms appearing in both years’ sample* | |||||||||||
| Annual averages | |||||||||||
| 2014 | $16,482 | $1,254 | $401 | $5,612 | $6,301 | $2,916 | |||||
| 2015 | $15,947 | $1,260 | $367 | $5,890 | $5,603 | $2,827 | |||||
| Change | |||||||||||
| Dollar | -$536 | $7 | -$34 | $277 | -$697 | -$88 | |||||
| Percent | -3.2% | 0.5% | -8.5% | 4.9% | -11.1% | -3.0% | |||||
| Panel B: Among all firms in each years’ sample | |||||||||||
| Annual averages | |||||||||||
| 2014 | $16,467 | $1,256 | $410 | $6,014 | $6,035 | $2,753 | |||||
| 2015 | $15,502 | $1,249 | $372 | $5,819 | $5,235 | $2,827 | |||||
| Change | |||||||||||
| Dollar | -$965 | -$7 | -$38 | -$195 | -$800 | $74 | |||||
| Percent | -5.9% | -0.5% | -9.2% | -3.2% | -13.3% | 2.7% | |||||
| Fifth** | |||||||||||
| 2014 | |||||||||||
| Bottom | $3,940 | $921 | $54 | $1,695 | $261 | $1,010 | |||||
| Second | 8,403 | 1,147 | 93 | 4,474 | 615 | 2,075 | |||||
| Middle | 11,835 | 1,251 | 135 | 5,972 | 1,868 | 2,610 | |||||
| Fourth | 17,739 | 1,384 | 621 | 7,939 | 4,418 | 3,377 | |||||
| Top | 40,666 | 1,582 | 1,155 | 10,052 | 23,158 | 4,719 | |||||
| 2015 | |||||||||||
| Bottom | $3,940 | $989 | $59 | $1,663 | $78 | $1,151 | |||||
| Second | 8,072 | 1,141 | 86 | 4,121 | 574 | 2,151 | |||||
| Middle | 10,979 | 1,257 | 67 | 6,417 | 619 | 2,619 | |||||
| Fourth | 15,803 | 1,333 | 389 | 8,726 | 2,233 | 3,123 | |||||
| Top | 38,718 | 1,527 | 1,258 | 8,170 | 22,671 | 5,092 | |||||
| Change, 2014–2015 | |||||||||||
| Dollars | |||||||||||
| Bottom | $0 | $935 | -$202 | $653 | $78 | $1,151 | |||||
| Second | -331 | 1,048 | -529 | 2,046 | 574 | 2,151 | |||||
| Middle | -856 | 1,122 | -1,801 | 3,807 | 619 | 2,619 | |||||
| Fourth | -1,936 | 712 | -4,029 | 5,349 | 2,233 | 3,123 | |||||
| Top | -1,948 | 372 | -21,900 | 3,451 | 22,671 | 5,092 | |||||
| Percent | |||||||||||
| Bottom | 0.0% | 7.4% | 10.2% | -1.9% | -70.1% | 13.9% | |||||
| Second | -3.9 | -0.5 | -7.2 | -7.9 | -6.6 | 3.7 | |||||
| Middle | -7.2 | 0.5 | -50.3 | 7.5 | -66.9 | 0.3 | |||||
| Fourth | -10.9 | -3.7 | -37.3 | 9.9 | -49.5 | -7.5 | |||||
| Top | -4.8 | -3.5 | 8.9 | -18.7 | -2.1 | 7.9 | |||||
*Only firms for which company names were identical in both years were included.
**Firms were categorized into fifths according to real CEO compensation.
Source: Authors' analysis of data from Compustat's Execucomp database.
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