Executive Reward Services
Are you getting the best return for your executive pay?
Learn how we can help your business develop the right executive remuneration strategy and incentive schemes.
By creating the right reward plan for your employees you can deliver sustainable value to your shareholders and incentivise outstanding executive performance. We’re a team of specialist executive reward advisers, who work alongside businesses to do just that.
Our technical accounting, corporate finance and HR experts will work with you to find the best executive rewards solution.
We work closely with a wide range of businesses including private and listed company boards, owners and management and have the expertise to provide tax sign-off on reward arrangements.
We’re a local business, so understand local businesses. But, we’re also part of an extensive national and global network. You’ll be able to tap into and stay connected with PwC’s worldwide network of executive reward advisors.
Developing the right reward structure for your executives is critical to attracting and retaining high performers.
How PwC can help
Our Executive Rewards team helps clients with all aspects of reward design and execution, including the development of remuneration strategy, the provision of data to support salary decision making and the design of incentive schemes.
The challenges we can help you with include:
- assisting boards to develop executive remuneration strategy, ensuring appropriate consideration of governance, stakeholders and the regulatory environment
- reviewing and designing short term incentive schemes (STIs) for executives which drive company performance and motivate individuals
- developing a remuneration policy that is strongly linked to your business objectives and helps you to understand and communicate what you value and want to reward
- reviewing and designing long term incentive schemes (LTIs) – including their role in the overall remuneration structure, the most appropriate scheme type, performance hurdles and accounting and tax considerations
- understanding your comparator markets and providing robust market remuneration data to underpin salary decision making for base salary, fixed remuneration and elements of total reward (including STI and LTI)
- supporting STI and LTI implementation, including drafting plan rules, liaison with legal advisers, participant and stakeholder communications, and tax and accounting advice
- benchmarking directors’ fees and providing advice on appropriate peer groups and market alignment.
Our services include:
- executive benchmarking
- reward strategy and policy design and review
- review of current remuneration management practice, structure and systems
- the review and design of STI schemes, including performance metric advice
- customised market surveys (within specific industries and for nominated peer groups)
- the review and design of LTI schemes
- STI and LTI implementation support
- directors’ Fees benchmarking
- Annual Executive Reward Report (published in July)
- remuneration related transaction support.
Participating in the annual PwC Executive Reward Report
Participating in our report provides you with an opportunity to join other leading companies (from start-ups to listed corporates) in securing high quality, robust and reliable private sector executive remuneration data.
The report enables participants to understand:
- how the executive remuneration market has moved over the past 12 months
- how competitively executives are rewarded
- market trends including short term incentive and long term incentive schemes and their role in executive pay.
Participants can submit data in person with a member of our team or utilising an Excel template.
The full report is only available for purchase by participating companies. You can submit data at any point in the year to purchase the next survey.
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