CEO Compensation

It's hard to read the business news without coming across reports about the salaries, bonuses, and stock option packages awarded to chief executives of publicly traded companies. Making sense of the numbers to assess how companies are paying their top brass is not easy. Investors must ensure that executive compensation is working in their favor.
Key Points
Pay for performance is a compensation strategy to align executive compensation with the company's success.
Base salaries for CEOs are often high but offer little incentive for hard work or skillful management.
Bonuses that are linked to company performance will encourage CEOs to work harder and make better decisions for stockholders.
Stock options can cause CEOs to focus on short-term performance or to manipulate numbers to meet targets.
Executives act more like owners when they have a stake in the business in the form of stock ownership.
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