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title: Controlled Companies
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# CEO Compensation and Controlled Companies

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## In this white paper:

- We compare CEO pay level similarities and differences focusing on investor demographics, delineating controlled companies that have few majority shareholders and their non-controlled counterparts with diverse constituent shareholders.
- A controlled company has few majority shareholders that can be a  
  parent or other corporate entity, a private equity or venture capital  
  firm, and/or founders along with their immediate and extended family.

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The benchmark job, Chief Executive Officer, is the focus of analysis.

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Controlled companies’ median values in all three segments for revenue were higher and for assets lower than non-controlled companies.

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Revenue is the gross annual money received from sales, interest, dividends earned, and other business transactions.

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Total Shareholder Return (TSR) is a measure reported fora one-year as well as three-year period. At ERI, we apply a rolling 12-month and 36-month period to report this metric.

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