Pay-for-Performance ModeLER
Anticipate Shareholder Pay-for-Performance Views
Forecast pay for performance scores and gain deeper pay alignment insights to strengthen plans and build investor trust.
Balancing shareholder expectations with internal pay objectives can be challenging. Our Pay for Performance Model facilitates independent benchmarking and modeling to help you build programs that meet company objectives and align with shareholder priorities.
From Complexity to Clarity
A New Standard for Pay-for-Performance Insight.
With global investors closely examining executive pay, issuers need actionable insights into pay alignment to meet evolving expectations around:
- Demonstrating a clear link between pay outcomes and long-term value
- Alignment with regional best practices.
- Disclosures and engagement informed by fact-based analysis.
That’s why we’ve updated our Pay for Performance Modeler to deliver data-driven insights, a new global scoring system, and tools to test pay alignment outcomes months before votes are cast.
Key Features and Benefits
Benchmark Pay and Performance Against Peers
Benchmark pay against your Glass Lewis peers using our expanded model, now covering U.S., Canadian, U.K. and European companies.
Anticipate Investor Say-On-Pay Views
Predict how institutional investors may view your executive pay via Glass Lewis’ numeric score and concern level output, based on regionally-tailored tests.
Compare Multiple Pay Scenarios
Model pay outcomes or test plan adjustments to explore potential impacts on your score and investor perception.
Understand Pay for Performance Scores
Glass Lewis’ proprietary Pay for Performance scores and concern levels are based on a series of quantitative tests comparing multiple measures of executive pay to company TSR and financial performance.
Scores, along with in-depth qualitative assessments, inform our analysts’ final vote recommendations, and are used by leading institutional investors when assessing executive pay proposals.
Learn More About Our Methodology >>
Learn More About Our Methodology >>
Predict Scores before Proxy Season
Access the model within the Glass Lewis Connect platform to anticipate your company's score before our governance research is published.
Gain Deeper Pay Insights
Test alignment using alternative pay outcome scenarios and use insights to inform program changes, engagements and disclosures.
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