Executive compensation is traditionally structured not just around a salaried income, but also around incentivised reward for company performance, to align pay with shareholder value.
In theory, this means that if the company does well under a particular executive team, that team earns compensation in line with their successes. Or, if performance suffers under their leadership, they earn less. However, in practice, this hasn’t always been exactly how executive pay has panned out.
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