ERI’s Executive Compensation Trends is a quarterly report that measures trends in executive compensation using analysis of the companies included in the Russell 3000 index.
The Russell 3000 is comprised of 3,000 securities traded on U.S. stock exchanges that collectively represent roughly 98% of the investable equity market in the United States.
Last updated on July 27, 2016, the Russell 3000 includes 2,973 distinct publicly-traded companies. These will be the companies used in the analysis of compensation in this report.
The December 2016 edition of ERI’s Executive Compensation Trends specifically highlights compensation for the top executive and two other executive titles
To analyze executive pay, the Russell 3000 companies were divided into three groups by the most recent market capitalization.
