But even companies that are trying to make their executive compensation transparent find it hard to reconcile this objective with two others:the need to attract the best person for the job of CEO and the desire to align his interests with those of shareholders.
If you look at the relationship between the increase in productivity in the American economy and the increase in compensation, what you find is that beginning around the 1980s, there was a widening gap between productivity and compensation.
At glassdoor, you can find the compensation levels for specific jobs at thousands of companies.
To find out about compensation at Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ), shareholders have to wade through 60 pages.
In the Wal-Mart case, all female employees are included and the lawyers are seeking back pay, a form of compensation that some courts might find precluded them from ever suing for money again.
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To answer those questions, we reviewed every relevant academic paper we could find that examined compensation and job satisfaction (115 of them in all), and we summarized and tried to quantify what they told us.
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So limits on bank compensation are fighting an uphill battle, and bankers will find ways around them via creative accounting and clever compensation packages.
If they did not have extended unemployment compensation, some unemployed workers would find and accept new jobs.
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Specifically, people who are able will find ways to move compensation from ordinary income to capital gains if the latter is taxed more favorably.
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"We don't find much responsiveness in compensation to how well people are performing, " says Paul Howes, the Hong Kong-based regional manager for management consultancy Hewitt Associates.
Payscale combed through the profiles of its 30 million unique users who supply compensation information on its website to find which law school grads make the most.
Needing most of that money to pay for hospital bills and food for his child, he now awaits additional compensation and help from the government to find stable work.
"I have understood that many people in Switzerland find the amount of the compensation linked to the non-compete agreement unreasonably high, despite the fact I had announced my intention to make the net amount available for philanthropic activities, " Mr Vasella said.
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Some of it is in the form of loans, SBA long term low interest loans but there are also direct grants that you do not have to repay if you qualify, unemployment compensation, rents as you try to find a new place to live.
The court said the workers in the town of Tuticorin were entitled to compensation and ordered the district administration to help them find alternate jobs.
Phone calls and text messages saying recipients are entitled to money, promising to write off debts or find a loan, or suggesting accident compensation can be claimed, have soared in recent years.
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They might attach strings to a fast-track deal that Mr Bush will find difficult to accept, such as generous compensation for workers displaced by foreign competition, or the enforcement of labour standards in America's bilateral agreements.
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Fortunately, many thoughtful people from both the creative and technology communities are working together to find a right balance between copyright protection, creator compensation and innovation.
Nonetheless, our table of compensation versus performance is about as complete as you'll find, thanks to our reporters Susan Kitchens and Patricia Huang, helped out by Shiyori Ito of FORBES' Tokyo bureau and FORBES GLOBAL's summer intern, Ashley Clark.
Noble Francis, economist for the Construction Products Association, says contractors will be waiting to find why projects were stopped, before deciding whether to claim compensation.
He worries that, despite the compensation, the family will again fall on hard times unless he or his sons can find better-paid employment.
Using US data, we find that adopting say-on-pay, a regular non-binding shareholder vote on executive compensation (similar to issue 1 in the Swiss referendum, although it will be a binding vote in Switzerland) and removing staggered boards (similar to issue) along with other corporate governance improvements unambiguously improves firm value on average, as reflected by the stock market.
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