How should your comp committee respond to the issue of conflicting pay numbers? Draw up the variant scenarios to see for yourselves how the “paydays” differ. In disclosing your proxy numbers, use the Compensation Disclosure & Analysis to make your case if it seems the disclosed pay level is not the same as realized pay (and prepare to defend any assumptions you use).
Finally, if there is strong variation between your execs’ disclosed pay, target pay, and realized pay, explore why. The more you can bring the legal snapshot, ideal and real figures into sync, the less explaining you’ll need to do.
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