Question: Where do I find information on compensation?

Answer


Employee compensation is the total cash and non-cash payments that you give to an employee in exchange for the work they do for you or your business.  Executive compensation tracks the compensation packages which includes salaries, bonuses, stock grants, stock options and other types of compensation such as the use of a private jet. 

Public company SEC filings available at the SEC.gov website provide primary resource information about a company's executive compensation. You can locate information about executive compensation in: Schedule 14A (annual proxy statement), the Form 10-K (audited annual report), and employment agreements that are filed as exhibits to company filings. 


Go to the NYU Business Library's Company & Financial Information section for links to useful resources including links to the following suggested resources: 

For searching in individual company:

Mergent Online: provides current compensation for executives and directors

  • Coverage: U.S., International
  • Search a company ->  select Executives tab to see the  compensation details.

Capital IQ: current and historical compensation for executives and directors

  • Coverage: U.S., International
  • Search a company in the Companies -> People: Compensation.

LSEG Workspace: current compensation for current and previous executives and directors

  • Coverage: U.S., International
  • Search a company in the the search bar 
  • In the company landing page-> ESG -> Officers: Details in the Remuneration box

For downloading across multiple companies:

WRDS: (how to search in WRDS)

Compustat: Execucomp: Executive compensation data collected directly from each company’s annual proxy (DEF14A SEC form)

  • Coverage: U.S., since 1990s
  • Go to Annual Compensation 

Capital IQ: People Intelligence covers over 4.5 million professionals and over 2.4 million people including private and public company executives, board members, and investment professionals, globally.

  • Coverage: U.S., International
  • Time period:
    • Compensation Detail: 2002 -
    • Compensation Summary: 1998 -
    • Professional:  1998 -

Thomson/Refinitiv: Refinitiv ESG Board Member Data

  • Coverage: U.S., International
  • Level: company level (not individual level)

 

Capital IQ: current and historical compensation for executives and directors

  • Go to Screening -> Compensation/ Ownership: Compensation

LSEG Workspace: company level compensation data

  • Type screener in the search bar
  • Select UNIVERSE, e.g. Public Companies, Private Companies
  • Choose compensation variables by going to “Launch Data Item Library” (three dots and three dashes icon), then go to Environmental, Social, and Governance -> Governance: Management 

 

Go to the NYU Business Library's Economic and Statistical Information section  for links to useful resources including a link to the following suggested resource.  

Statista: Provides data on executive and employee compensation in the world.

US Salary ranges by occupation are available in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)

 

 

Answered By: Business Librarians
Last Updated: Aug 24, 2023Views:

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