That was up from 35% in 2009, according to Hay Group, a consulting firm.
The rise in compensation detailed by the Hay Group is part of a broader trend.
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One popular workplace tool, for example, is the Learning Style Inventory, published by the Philadelphia-based Hay Group.
Contrast that with new data from Hay Group, a Philadelphia consulting firm that does periodic employee compensation surveys.
Starbucks investors also got richer, with gains in the stock plus reinvested dividends up 24.9% last year, according to Hay Group.
Executive coaching is growing by about 40% a year, says Susan Bloch, head of coaching at the Hay Group, a human-resources consultancy.
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The Hay Group reckons that a European chief executive's basic salary is much the same as that of his counterpart across the Atlantic.
Nearly two-thirds of all physicians now have annual incentive plans, according to the Hay Group, a Philadelphia-based management consultancy that surveyed 182 health care groups.
According to the Hay Group that specializes in compensation issues, corporate boards must assure that pay standards are fair and transparent, and that the process to assign compensation does not conflict with general employee benefit policies.
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An action group was formed in Hay two years ago in opposition to the new supermarket.
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The 12 members of the task-and-finish group, who include Hay Festival director Peter Florence, Lord Elis-Thomas AM and BBC broadcaster Roy Noble, are looking at nine topics.
Cumbria Wildlife Trust and a group of volunteers restored a hay meadow at Row Foot, Ravenstonedale, after tests showed the soil had low fertility.
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Since then, the council has offered the group use of a stall at Hay Hill to carry on their protest, at their request to have a "building" to campaign in.
Former Celtic, Dunfermline and Livingston boss Hay, whose son-in-law, Tomasso Angelini, is part of the ownership group, was brought in as a consultant to assist the 52-year-old.
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