C-Suite

Executives are facing moderate salary growth and tougher performance metrics in 2012, according to a recent survey from Pearl Meyer & Partners, an independent compensation consultant firm.

An ever-increasing trend points to the fact that many individuals do not understand the role that they play individually in the health care crisis. Likewise, many employers do not effectively communicate this story to their employees in a positive and empowering way. This lack of clear communication can undermine the...

Forty-five percent of employers believe educating employees on benefits is a top priority among management, as more senior leaders are taking on advocate roles, according to the Employee Benefits Accountability and Consumerism 2011 survey by WorldatWork.

Most on Wall Street should expect to see much lower year-end incentive payouts, compared to 2010, which is the second time in four years this has occurred, according to a yearly compensation analysis by Johnson Associates Inc., a New York-based compensation consulting firm.

The Young Presidents Organization Global Pulse Index dropped 3.4 points in the third quarter to 57.7 as confidence declined among the more than 1,000 U.S. CEOs participating in the survey.

About 70 percent of employers supplement their qualified plans with additional employer-funded, non-qualified retirement benefits for their senior executives, and these supplemental plans providing an annual contribution are marginally more common than those focusing on a specified retirement benefit, according to a new benefits survey by Integrated Healthcare Strategies.

Four U.S. senators and health officials from the cities hosting the World Series are urging the baseball players union to agree to a ban on chewing tobacco at games and on camera.

The average base salary for a CEO is $338,300 per year, an uptick of 1.6 percent from last year, according to the Executive Compensation 2011/2012 survey by Compdata Surveys.