{"id":205,"date":"2008-03-18T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/2008\/03\/directors-remuneration\/"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:37:07","slug":"directors-remuneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/","title":{"rendered":"He got paid how much?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSignet Directors Remuneration<\/a>
\nSignet<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

We recommend that for transparency and openness, information about the remuneration of management and their share options, should be drawn out and specified explicitly on the site, not left buried in the annual report.<\/p>\n

Ideally, this would also be linked to information about the remuneration policy, and to information about the directors’ dealings in the company shares.
\n
\nSignet do a great job of this: they provide dedicated pages in HTML (not PDFs), which cover their remuneration policy, what the directors are paid (by name) and what the shareholdings of each director are.<\/p>\n

I don’t think that companies should necessarily be shy about publishing this information clearly, and in an easily accessible format; according to the Sunday Times<\/a> this week, recent research, to be presented by Andrew Clark at this week\u2019s Royal Economic Society conference at Warwick University, shows that high pay does not cause resentment because workers aspire to being paid such salaries themselves.<\/p>\n

I can see, though, that it might be embarrassing for the individuals concerned …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Signet We recommend that for transparency and openness, information about the remuneration of management and their share options, should be drawn out and specified explicitly on the site, not left buried in the annual report. Ideally, this would also be linked to information about the remuneration policy, and to information about the directors’ dealings in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[8246,8252,78,35,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-practices","7":"category-corporate-governance","8":"tag-best-practices","9":"tag-corporate-governance","10":"tag-directors-remuneration","11":"tag-online-corporate-communications","12":"tag-signet","13":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\nHe got paid how much? - Corporate Eye<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"He got paid how much? - Corporate Eye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Signet We recommend that for transparency and openness, information about the remuneration of management and their share options, should be drawn out and specified explicitly on the site, not left buried in the annual report. Ideally, this would also be linked to information about the remuneration policy, and to information about the directors’ dealings in […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Corporate Eye\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lucy Nixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@lucynixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@lucynixon\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lucy Nixon\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lucy Nixon\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/d273bf7421dc8f5fec96785876b760e2\"},\"headline\":\"He got paid how much?\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\"},\"wordCount\":175,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Best Practices\",\"Corporate governance\",\"directors remuneration\",\"online corporate communications\",\"Signet\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Best Practices\",\"Corporate governance\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\",\"name\":\"He got paid how much? - Corporate Eye\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":113},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"He got paid how much?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\",\"name\":\"Corporate Eye\",\"description\":\"...compare, compete, excel\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Corporate Eye\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png\",\"width\":283,\"height\":42,\"caption\":\"Corporate Eye\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/d273bf7421dc8f5fec96785876b760e2\",\"name\":\"Lucy Nixon\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/538dc739f95aa5a2fd75d054808b18b2afa37a9282a7a8f87001a77dc128d759?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/538dc739f95aa5a2fd75d054808b18b2afa37a9282a7a8f87001a77dc128d759?s=96&d=identicon&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Lucy Nixon\"},\"description\":\"Lucy is Editor at Corporate Eye\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/author\/lucy\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"He got paid how much? - Corporate Eye","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"He got paid how much? - Corporate Eye","og_description":"Signet We recommend that for transparency and openness, information about the remuneration of management and their share options, should be drawn out and specified explicitly on the site, not left buried in the annual report. Ideally, this would also be linked to information about the remuneration policy, and to information about the directors’ dealings in […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/","og_site_name":"Corporate Eye","article_published_time":"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Lucy Nixon","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@lucynixon","twitter_site":"@lucynixon","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Lucy Nixon","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/"},"author":{"name":"Lucy Nixon","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/d273bf7421dc8f5fec96785876b760e2"},"headline":"He got paid how much?","datePublished":"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/"},"wordCount":175,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg","keywords":["Best Practices","Corporate governance","directors remuneration","online corporate communications","Signet"],"articleSection":["Best Practices","Corporate governance"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/","name":"He got paid how much? - Corporate Eye","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg","datePublished":"2008-03-18T13:33:52+00:00","dateModified":"2020-01-08T13:37:07+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/signetdirectorspay150.jpg","width":150,"height":113},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/directors-remuneration\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"He got paid how much?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/","name":"Corporate Eye","description":"...compare, compete, excel","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#organization","name":"Corporate Eye","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/corporate-eye-logo.png","width":283,"height":42,"caption":"Corporate Eye"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/d273bf7421dc8f5fec96785876b760e2","name":"Lucy Nixon","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/538dc739f95aa5a2fd75d054808b18b2afa37a9282a7a8f87001a77dc128d759?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/538dc739f95aa5a2fd75d054808b18b2afa37a9282a7a8f87001a77dc128d759?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","caption":"Lucy Nixon"},"description":"Lucy is Editor at Corporate Eye","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com","https:\/\/x.com\/lucynixon"],"url":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/author\/lucy\/"}]}},"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51145,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/51145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}