Managing Executive Pay in a Changing Economic Climate

In today’s human resources landscape, balancing a pay for performance philosophy with the imperative to ensure equitable compensation can seem challenging. In our view, differentiating pay based on performance is a key element of fairness. With the right guardrails in place, organizations can implement a performance-based pay structure that does not conflict with internal pay equity objectives or external legislative requirements.

Say on Pay support remains strong among TSX60 companies, with average shareholder approval at 93.8%. All companies received over 80% support.

Long-Term Incentives (LTI) serve as a critical component of annual compensation across all sectors. In order to ensure that compensation supports critical business needs and strategy, companies sometimes provide additional one-time LTI awards to address exceptional circumstances, such as major acquisitions, leadership transitions, retention or new executive hires. Download Laulima's report for more details.