TSR Performance and CEO Pay Study

Equilar's report examines the relationship between total shareholder return (TSR) and CEO compensation in the S&P 1500 over a one-year (2008-2009) and three-year (2006-2009) period. This relationship is one of the most important to institutional investors and proxy-advisory firms.

Some of our findings:

• 23.9% of firms increased their CEO's pay, despite below-median TSR, in the past year (2008-2009).
• 30.0% of firms increased their CEO's pay, despite below-median TSR, in the past three years (2006-2009).
• Almost all companies studied increased their CEO's base salary from 2006 to 2009, even if the CEO's total compensation went down.

Learn more by requesting the full report.