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The higher salaries reflect a more competitive market for finance talent. Sixty-one percent of survey respondents said they are experiencing either minor or significant shortages of finance and accounting talent, up from 46% who reported shortages in the prior year.
The shift is increasing pressure on CFOs and controllers to rethink how they attract and retain talent. READ MORE
SpaceX’s executive compensation filing reads unlike anything in the history of SEC paperwork. The word “Mars” appears 63 times, including inside the formal executive compensation section, and the document contains a quote from Isaac Asimov. Reporters who reviewed it noted no real precedent in the history of executive compensation. The legal condition for CEO Elon Musk’s payday is a permanent human colony on Mars with at least 1 million inhabitants. READ MORE
For most of private equity’s modern history, executive compensation answered a single question: how do we keep this leadership team in place until we sell? Pay was built around a clean three to five year arc, with the bulk of the reward waiting at the finish line. That model assumed a predictable exit. Today, that assumption no longer holds.
Hold periods have stretched, capital markets have become more volatile, and sponsors are asking far more of the executives running their portfolio companies. As a result, the purpose of compensation has also changed to adapt. It is no longer a retention contract. It has become an engine for value creation, engineered to reward the specific behaviours that build a more valuable business: EBITDA quality, working capital discipline, pricing power, clean M&A integration, digital transformation, and exit readiness.. READ MORE
Clifford Chance is facing a federal lawsuit from two former partners who allege that the law firm asked them to repay nearly $5.8 million in compensation after they left in January.
“This action relates to the firm’s efforts to claw back plaintiffs’ already-paid and already-earned compensation, pursuant to certain provisions of the [firm’s partnership] agreements, as punitive and anti-competitive measures in apparent response to plaintiffs’ withdrawal from the firm to join Sidley Austin,” said Clifford Cone and Michael Sabin said in their June 29 complaint. READ MORE
When HR leaders want to keep their teams engaged, they might assume that compensation is the key. However, new research from Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) suggests the bigger levers are more closely centered on daily work and responsibilities. READ MORE
At some point in your career, you'll likely wonder: Am I getting paid enough?
The answer depends on what other people in your role actually earn, and how experience shifts those numbers. Below, we break down median salaries for 150 of the most common professions by years of experience, from just starting a job to 20-plus years in. If your pay looks low, the next move is knowing how to check, document, and ask for more. READ MORE
Salary transparency laws are quickly becoming corporate America’s worst nightmare.
Turns out companies really don’t want you knowing what the job next to you pays, or what your own job is supposedly worth. READ MORE
What’s your number? This is the first question I ask when considering a new hire. I expect those I ask to know what it costs for them to live—not just to survive, but to thrive. I start with this question because it gives me a chance to understand a prospective employee’s expectations and needs, and to assess my ability to meet them.
Since 2018, I have worked with close to 2,000 high school students, providing them with paid summer work experience. Most had never considered their number before. I also mentor many young Gen Zers who are now finishing college and looking for their first full-time post-college job. One mentee, Sophia Castellanos—who just graduated from my alma mater, Claremont McKenna College—earned a degree in international relations. She asked if I might have any opportunities for her. READ MORE
Big law firms are enjoying staggering upticks in profitability after years of consolidation and double-digit billing rate increases. That has led to eye-popping compensation for top partners despite concerns that artificial intelligence tools could disrupt the industry. Now the elite firms are again ratcheting up the pay scale for entry-level lawyers in a competitive market. READ MORE
Every year on July 1, Bobby Bonilla collects a check for $1,193,248.20 from the New York Mets. He has done so every July 1 since 2011 and will continue to do so through 2035. The date is so well known that baseball fans simply call it Bobby Bonilla Day.
For Mets fans, it is an annual punchline. For tax folks, it is something else: a reminder that when you get paid can matter almost as much as how much you get paid. READ MORE
As companies like PNC, JPMorgan Chase and Paramount bring employees back to the office, the debate has focused on collaboration, culture and productivity. Missing from that conversation is the impact of remote work on paychecks. However, a recent study found that the majority of tech workers lose thousands annually in work-from-home arrangements.
JobLeads, a job-seeking platform, analyzed salary data across 42 standardized tech roles and found that 86% of positions pay less when they are performed remotely than when they are performed in the office. The average remote worker earns $7,703 less annually, according to the report, roughly a 6% cut. Senior and mid-level workers each lose approximately $10,000 per year going fully remote, and the researchers say not a single senior-level role in the study commanded a remote premium. READ MORE
On May 19, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments (the Filer Status Proposal) to its filer status framework. These amendments present a major overhaul of the public company reporting regime, including with respect to executive and director compensation disclosure practices, by significantly increasing the number of public companies that would be entitled to both scaled compensation disclosure and exemptions from compensation-related requirements. READ MORE
Minimum wage workers in some of the country’s largest cities and across Alaska and Oregon are about to get a midyear raise.
Laws at the city, county and state levels mandate dozens of minimum wage increases taking effect July 1 (Wednesday), boosting the paychecks of hundreds of thousands of Americans. READ MORE
Katrine Razniak, 27, arrived in San Francisco in 2022 as a recruiter at LinkedIn, earning $70,000 a year. Her annual salary soared to $180,000 when she joined the software company Rippling to lead a team of account managers. Her partner, Adam Woodbury, 39, moved to the city in 2021 and earns $185,000 as a software engineer.
These days, even those six-figure salaries are no longer enough in San Francisco. READ MORE
The Wall Street Journal just released its annual CEO pay analysis, and the data shows a clear rebound in payouts following a post-2021 slump. Notably, more CEOs made $100 million or more in 2025 than in any year since then.
Eight chief execs at S&P 500 companies hit a nine-figure payout, including a few names you’ve probably heard of: Warner Bros. Discovery’s David Zaslav came in fifth with $165 million in total pay, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman hit sixth with $126 million and Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon scored seventh at $119 million. READ MORE
A new round of compensation data suggests U.S. CEO pay is rising once more, reviving an old debate over what corporate "discipline" actually looks like.
Among S&P 500 companies, eight CEOs cleared the $100 million mark, with one package far larger than the rest. READ MORE
Who is the highest paid CEO in all of pharma? To be honest, the 2025 list of top paid chief executives looks a lot like the 2024 list. And that’s no surprise, given the year this CEO oversaw.
Eli Lilly’s David Ricks took home $36.7 million for the year, representing a 26% pay bump over the year prior. He helped the storied pharma along to a 45% revenue increase to $65 billion. Lilly broke the pharma mold in 2025, with its market cap rising 25%, briefly hitting a $1 trillion valuation.
So Ricks has commanded a compensation package to match, with Lilly’s board eager to keep him happy. READ MORE
Few college majors pay better after graduation than computer engineering.
The major also shows why more high school graduates are questioning whether a bachelor's degree is worth it: computer engineers earn the highest early-career median wage of any major, $90,000, but they also face an unemployment rate of 7.8%, one of the highest the Federal Reserve Bank of New York tracks. READ MORE
Consider someone holding a share award in a private company.
They received it twelve months ago, during an optimistic conversation about growth and value creation. They signed the documents. They may even have paid something for it.
But ask them today what it is actually worth - not the number communicated, but what has to happen before they can make money from it - and many will struggle to answer. They know they have "equity". They are less clear on what they own, what sits ahead of them in the capital structure, what conditions apply and whether the exit timeline is realistic. READ MORE
A new analysis found that those who bring AI knowledge to a job may have an easier time getting work—and a higher-paying salary.
The findings stem from PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, which analyzed over a billion job advertisements around the world. READ MORE