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On September 17, 2019, the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) announced a major revision in its governance policies relating to executive compensation. Their updated policies on executive compensation urge public companies to reduce the complexity of their pay plans and...

NFPCC REPORTS KEY FINDINGS IN ISS 2019 SURVEY On Sept. 11, 2019, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) announced the results of its 2019 Global Policy Survey based on respondents including investors, public company executives and company advisors. ISS will use these...

Kyle Lamport contributed his expertise on compensation committee best practices and was quoted in two articles in Boardroom Insider’s September newsletter. Click here to subscribe to Boardroom Insider and read the full...

NFPCC attends over 100 board and committee meetings annually. Each meeting is unique; however, there is a key factor that makes a meeting and its discussions fruitful: PREPARATION. Benjamin Franklin once said “failing to prepare is preparing to fail.” NFPCC agrees with...

We are excited to announce two of our own, Senior Director Tyler Brown and Marketing Director Erika Ruiz, have each been recognized as winners of The M&A Advisor's 2019 Emerging Leaders Award. Read the full press release here. Congratulations to both of our team...

Companies often ask us, “What are we not doing that we should think about as it relates to executive compensation?” We recognize the executive compensation environment is continually heating up with pressure from just about every angle, and as a result, the answers to...

Keep your compensation programs competitive by participating in NFPCC's Midstream and Upstream Industry Compensation surveys and find out what it takes to attract, motivate, and retain your teams. The surveys will provide current compensation trends as they relate to pay...

"Gender Pay Equity Analysis Is Here to Stay. Is Your Company Doing It Right?"» We would like to share this article » from our partners at NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) with our readers. Gender equity continues to be an important topic for most...

Employers have long struggled with the ability to attract, retain and reward key talent. Government limits and restrictions on the amount that employees and employers may contribute toward qualified retirement plans, such as IRAs and 401(k) and 403(b) plans, leave many highly...

We received this complimentary briefing from our partners at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) which explains how compensation, risk, and audit-committee chairs from Fortune 500 companies are addressing key issues like these: Major trends impacting the...

  Keep your compensation programs competitive by participating in NFPCC's Midstream and Upstream Industry Compensation surveys and find out what it takes to attract, motivate, and retain your teams. The surveys will provide current compensation trends as they relate to...

For the second time, NFPCC is excited to be recognized as one of Houston’s 2019 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For. The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® competition identifies and honors companies that deliver exceptional human resource practices and an...

Our partners at National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) recently conducted a governance survey in which more than 500 public company directors participated. The graphic below denotes some of the key...

ISS ANNOUNCES POLICY UPDATES FOR 2019 PROXY SEASON For those unaware, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) announced updates to its 2019 benchmark proxy voting guidelines on November 19, 2018. This is the last step of their annual process wherein they review policies,...

We are proud to announce that our company has been recognized by Consulting Magazine as one of the Fastest Growing Firms of...

NFPCC is happy to partner with SHOES (Showing Hope by Offering Essential Supplies) Ministry, whose mission is to assist individuals and organizations in the Greater Houston area care for children in crisis by supplying equipment and supplies that are essential to their...

We are sharing an article we found on LinkedIn written by Tracy Houston entitled, "Top 7 Challenges for Public Company Director Candidates." The author's hope is that her article will bring further insights that will leverage and prioritize the time and efforts needed to...

Dear All, Just like that, summer break has come and gone and school is back in session! As we gear up for the busy fall season we took a moment to evaluate our goals as well as our team members. We are excited to announce another round of promotions within our NFPCC staff! Read...

The leadership here at NFP Compensation Consulting is pleased to announce recent promotions at our firm here in this press release. We couldn't ask for a better team! Congratulations to all of our promoted team...

Is gender pay equity gap as big of an issue in 2018 as it has been in previous years? We are all told that gender pay equity is measured on the same scale, but in reality the gap virtually disappears when analyzing the same level, company, and function. Most articles cite “The...

The Houston Business Journal has revealed Houston’s fastest-growing private companies for 2018, and NFP Compensation Consulting is included in the list of Fast 100 finalists. The ranking of these 100 companies will be revealed in September, so stay...

We want to hear from you! Here is a chance to let us know how we are doing and what we can do better by participating in this short survey. It will literally take you one minute to complete and will be extremely helpful to us. Thank...

NFP Compensation Consulting provides the salary data for the Dallas Business Journal’s annual analysis on the highest-paid public company CEOs in North Texas. Click here to read the full...

NFPCC's President, Chris Crawford, was recently quoted in a Bloomberg article by Liam Denning entitled, "A Tiny Gas Firm's Big Lesson on Bosses' Pay." Denning explains how Comstock Resources exemplifies the skewed incentives in the E&P...

NFPCC was recently invited to participate in Tudor Pickering’s 2018 Hotter N’ Hell Conference. Dan Pickering quizzed NFPCC’s Chris Crawford on recent executive compensation trends in the energy sector. Here are just a few highlights from that “fireside chat”. Q: It...

NFPCC's President, Chris Crawford, shared his thoughts on Tesla's newly-approved pay package: "It appears that Shareholders are okay with huge pay, as long as there is huge performance attached. This approval vote seems to swim counter to the current flow of compensation tides...

Dear All, Spring is finally here and with it the first CEO Pay Ratio disclosures of 2018! Although we are still in the early stages of proxy season, we are already seeing eye-catching data for the newly required pay ratio disclosure. It will be interesting to see how this...

The divisiveness of politics is reaching extremes in today’s climate. It’s incredible how the same story can be told by two different reporters and both will express the exact opposite information as fact. Walter Cronkite famously stated: “We all have our likes and our...

NFP Compensation Consulting Named One of the 2018 Best Companies to Work for in Texas Compensation Consulting Firm Makes List for 8th Year in a Row Houston, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 03/19/2018 --NFP Compensation Consulting was recently recognized as one of the 2018 Best Companies...

Two debates are currently underway: 1. Should college coaches be paid with lots of zeros and student athletes be paid zero? See the March 1 USA Today article attached. 2. The new 2017 Tax Act will provide a 21% excise tax on any not for profit (University) for paying over $1...

Dear All, It has been a long, cold winter and we are ready for Spring and some much needed sunshine! Proxy season is in full swing and we at NFPCC have been busy helping our public clients with proxy and CD&A disclosures. Compensation decisions don’t end with the numbers...

Many of you are in the “proxy push” to get the proxy statement filed in the coming months. The amount of detail required, and requested, can make the exercise a challenge for all involved. The question is: Are you spending your time effectively on the right parts? A recent...

We would like to share this article by the Washington Post with our readers, along with insight on the subject of salary shaming from one of NFPCC's founders. Here are 4 “predictions” from our company's President, Chris Crawford, related to CEO Pay and this article: CEO...

Dear All, We are well into the start of the new year and although 2018 has greeted us with some extremely cold temperatures that paralyzed our city for a couple of days, we at NFPCC have hit the ground running and are gearing up for proxy season. In this first L-Blast of 2018...

We would like to share this article written by Dina Gerdeman featured on Harvard Business School's website entitled, "If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer." Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand...

December – a time for reflection on the year that was, review of company performance…and a first look at the latest policy updates from proxy advisory firms like Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”). While it...

2018 Energy Pay Pulse Survey Launches December 1 At NFPCC, we’ve designed our participant-only 2018 Energy Pay Pulse Survey to concisely and powerfully asses market trends for companies in the energy industry. The survey will capture current compensation trends as they relate...

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity”. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Executive compensation practice and application is continually developing based on proxy advisory firm...

There was an article titled “Decoding CEO Pay” recently published in Harvard Business Review, and in our opinion here at NFP Compensation Consulting, Messrs. Pozen and Kothari have some valid points, and many that are not so valid. It appears they found a few unique, obscure...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) launched a two-week consultation on potential updates to its benchmark voting policy for 2018. The comment period will allow all interested parties – including companies, investors, advisors, and others – to provide their perspective...

ISS published its annual post-season report on compensation results and trends last month, and this article from Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation summarizes their findings. Here are some main points: Say-on-pay support reached its...

Today we are sharing this article from the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation with helpful information to our readers. Even though director compensation programs look quite similar from company to company, the primary difference between...

It’s that time of year again as we enter the final quarter of a compensation cycle and the beginning of a new football season, with renewed hopes that this is your team’s year. With this entry into salary planning time for the general employee population, HR departments are...

We found this great article written by Business Wire, and we wanted to share it with our readers: Activist Investor Challenges Executive Pay Accounting at T-Mobile July 31, 2017 - WASHINGTON - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Earlier today, the CtW Investment Group petitioned the SEC to...

Keep your incentive programs competitive with the energy market by participating in NFPCC’s 2017 Energy Incentive Compensation Survey. Click on the link to find out who is eligible to participate, what data will be provided, how much it costs, important dates to be aware of,...

NFP Compensation Consulting performed a detailed study of compensation awarded to chief executives at North Texas' largest publicly traded companies, based on 2016 revenue. This article written by Karen Robinson-Jacobs discuss the main trends found in our study and features...

On Tuesday (7/25), CRTRA partnered with NFP Compensation Consulting to package 7,992 meals through the Outreach Program to help feed hungry people. Check out their program and other local programs like it, and see what opportunities are available for you and/or your company to...

“Winter is coming” – a household phrase for those familiar with the Game of Thrones television series and book adaptation. Applied in the context of corporate issuers – CEO Pay Ratio is coming! Are you prepared? Are you familiar with how to run the calculation? Do you...

Chain Restaurant Total Rewards Association's 2017 Annual Conference  Hilton Gaslamp 401 K St. San Diego, CA 92101 Session 1: Roundtable: What Reward Data is Important to You? July 26, 2017 3:00pm Speakers: Liz Mayo, Director, NFP Compensation Consulting and Susan Douglas,...

Federal legislation impacts all citizens. This is especially the case for rewards professionals, as they must navigate and implement rewards programs that are subject to new legislation once it becomes law. Last spring, when WorldatWork held its first Legislative Summit in...