Say-on-Pay Voting Data: Not Yet in PlainCEOPay's Dataset
Since Dodd-Frank made annual shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation a requirement, "say-on-pay" voting has become a signal that capital-markets participants increasingly watch. This page previously presented FY 2024 say-on-pay vote statistics; on review, we found that PlainCEOPay's database does not actually contain say-on-pay vote-result data anywhere, so those statistics were fabricated. We have removed them rather than let them stand.
Data availability notice
A rigorous say-on-pay analysis needs, per company and fiscal year: the disclosed advisory-vote support percentage (from the 8-K filed within four business days of the annual meeting), the prior-year support percentage for year-over-year comparison, and ideally the ISS/Glass Lewis voting recommendation. PlainCEOPay's pipeline currently ingests DEF 14A compensation figures (total compensation, pay ratio) but does not ingest 8-K vote-result data, so none of these fields exist in our database today. Any specific say-on-pay percentage, industry-dissent ranking, or vote-outcome correlation attributed to "our data" on this topic would be invented, not derived, and we are not willing to publish that.
What PlainCEOPay can show today
While we don't have vote-result data, our database does have real, live-queried figures on CEO total compensation and the CEO-to-worker pay ratio, including trends by fiscal year and by industry. See our CEO pay ratio trends and total compensation by industry research pages, or look up any individual company on its company page.
Sources
- SEC EDGAR, DEF 14A and 8-K filings - https://www.sec.gov/edgar
- Dodd-Frank Section 951, Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation - 15 U.S.C. § 78n-1
Every figure on PlainCEOPay is rendered directly from SEC EDGAR executive compensation filings, no number is typed in by an editor. Total compensation and pay-ratio figures elsewhere on PlainCEOPay draw directly from SEC EDGAR filings; this page contains no computed figures at all, by design, since we do not ingest say-on-pay vote data. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.