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Featured on  Potential Windfalls Loom for Some Top ExecutivesThe Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2012"More than $780 million of equity will be eligible to be sold in the first quarter of 2012 by Bay Area executives overall, an amount that represents nearly 44% of the equity scheduled to vest during the year, according to a new Equilar study based on its Atlas tool, which looks at coming wealth events." |
April 2012
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Apple CEO's earnings: The New York Times gets it wrongCNN Money, April 8, 2012"Then, dubbing Cook "The 378 Million Man," it published a graphic comparing his total compensation package, as compiled by Equilar, to various benchmarks: Number of $199 iPhones (1.9 million), number of $4.99 iPhone apps (75.8 million), number of years of employment in an iPad factory (60,919)." |
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50 Slices of WealthThe New York Times, April 7, 2012"The list, compiled by Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, includes only those companies with revenue over $5 billion that had reported through March 30 of this year." |
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In Executive Pay, a Rich Game of ThronesThe New York Times, April 7, 2012"After the ups and downs of the recent boom-bust years, pay among the 100 best-paid chief executives at big American corporations held fairly steady in 2011, according to Equilar, which reviewed C.E.O. compensation for The New York Times." |
March 2012
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Top 10 CEO Pay for 2011: In PhotosabcNEWS, March 30, 2012Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, compiled a list of CEO pay of companies with revenue over $5 billion that filed annual proxy statements by March 30, 2012. |
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Executive Compensation Benchmarking and Peer SelectionCorporate Board Member, March 26, 2012Governance Minutes is produced by the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals in collaboration with Corporate Board Member. The second broadcast in the series features an interview with David Chun, CEO of Equilar. |
January 2012
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New Service Could Change Say-on-Pay VotesAgenda, January 17, 2012"McCauley adds that the Equilar tool will probably come in handy for investors who want to take a closer look at 'gray zone' companies that got less than 70% support for their pay plans in the 2011 proxy season. The Florida pension fund will use Equilar's database when a company's 'pay-for-performance relationship is in the middle and we might be on the fence,' McCauley says." |
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Meg Whitman Gets Another Stock Option Welcoming at H-PCompliance Week, January 17, 2012"Every month, Compliance Week publishes a list of the largest stock option grants and restricted stock awards during the previous period. The data and analysis are provided by compensation research firm Equilar." |
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Apple's New Chief Collects $US377m, as Silicon Valley Bosses Enjoy a LiftThe Australian Business, January 10, 2012"Bay Area executives sold $US1.6 billion of stock in the first quarter of 2011, according to Equilar, up about 50 per cent from nearly $US1.1bn in the same period in 2010." |
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Apple Chief Tim Cook in $378m Pay PackageBBC News, January 10, 2012"Aaron Boyd, head of research at Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, said Mr Cook's stock award was the largest single award given by a company for a decade. Mr Cook will receive half of the shares in 2016 and half in 2021." |
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Apple Makes Stock Award for New ChiefThe New York Times, January 9, 2012"'As far as a singular award, we haven't seen anything this large in a long time,' said Aaron Boyd, head of research at Equilar, an executive compensation data firm." |
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Apple CEO's Stock Awards Lift Compensation to $378 MillionSFGate, January 10, 2012"The total puts Cook ahead of the highest-paid CEOs as ranked recently by Equilar Inc., which tracks executive compensation." |
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Apple Makes Stock Award for New ChiefThe New York Times, January 9, 2012"'As far as a singular award, we haven't seen anything this large in a long time,' said Aaron Boyd, head of research at Equilar, an executive compensation data firm." |
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Yahoo's New CEO Gets $26 Million WelcomeMercury News, January 6, 2012"Bartz never collected the full stated value of her first-year pay package because it included millions in stock incentives that turned out to be worth less than the initial estimate that Yahoo reported to regulators, according to Aaron Boyd at the Equilar compensation research firm." |
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Undercover ZillionairesCNNMoney, January 6, 2012"Sure, corporate chiefs' pay often is eye-poppingly high. But at some companies, executives lower down the ladder quietly out-earned their CEO bosses in 2010." Source: Equilar, Inc. |
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Is In Line To Make A Boatload Of Money From Stock Grants This QuarterBusiness Insider, January 5, 2012"Apple CEO Tim Cook is in position to make a boatload of money from vested stock grants in the first quarter of 2012, according to data provided to the WSJ by Equilar Inc., which tracks compensation." |
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Top CEO Compensation in 2011CNBC, January 4, 2012"Drawing from S.E.C. filings submitted from January 1st to December 31st, 2011, pay consultant Equilar's Money in Motion found only 220 of S&P 500 CEOs actually sold stock last year." |
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He's One of the Nation's Highest-Paid CEOs—and You've Never Heard of HimThe Daily Beast, January 2, 2012"But his haul in the 13 years he has been running McKesson? More than $500 million, according to data provided by Equilar, an executive-compensation data firm." |
