Who are the most influential directors at big publicly traded U.S. companies? The first annual Wall Street Journal ranking identifies 251 of them.

State Farm will raise California insurance rates by up to 38% from 1 June, prompting backlash over affordability and lack of transparency. A review is due in October.

Digging into Allstate’s recent financial statements, Senator Josh Hawley questioned the company’s decision to reward the ...

With his severance package alone worth $69.3 million, more than the total pay packages disclosed for any other industry player, Bob Bakish, the former CEO of Paramount Global, was catapulted to ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a roundtable next month to discuss executive compensation disclosure rules, which Chair Paul Atkins said have grown “increasingly complex and ...

Yet for some reason the spirit of economizing didn’t extend to the executive suites. Seven of the 10 CEOs and media barons whose pay packages we examine as part of our annual survey of ...

Are boards designing compensation packages to drive performance or avoid criticism? Firms once tailored executive pay to match business goals. Growth-oriented companies leaned on performance-based ...

Another sharp increase in Wells Fargo & Co.’s stock awards boosted chief executive and president Charles Scharf’s 2024 compensation by 16.7% to $30.3 million. Scharf took over as chief ...

a low-profile executive of Pennsylvania-based Coherent, which produces equipment for networks and lasers. The bulk of his salary, the only one among 100 highly paid CEOs to reach nine-figures ...

tops the 2024 leaderboard for CEO pay with a staggering $101.5 million package — the only nine‑figure haul in a new study that looked at CEO compensation structures across American ...

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang saw his total compensation rise 46% to nearly $50M in fiscal 2025, as the chipmaker emerged as a central player in the global artificial intelligence boom.