ERI’s Canadian Executive Compensation Trends is a quarterly report that measures trends in executive compensation using the top 1,000 publicly traded Canadian companies by market capitalization in both 2014 and 2015.
The 1,000 companies included in September 2016 Canadian Executive Compensation Trends collectively represent roughly 85% of the investable Canadian stock market.
Mean revenue increased by 8.9% from 2014 to 2015. In 2015, the median revenue for companies included in this analysis was just over C$1 billion.
Total direct compensation includes salary, annual cash incentive, and the grant-date value of stock and option awards in a fiscal year.
The small, mid, and large-cap groups saw median total direct compensation decreases by 9.8%, 8.8%, and 1.3%, respectively, over 2014.
Executives in the mid-cap group were the only executives who typically received an increase (over 6%) in the pensions in 2015.
