Executive Compensation Consulting
Create a competitive advantage. Drive long-term success.
Compensation committees and CEOs share a fundamental goal: building and rewarding high performance management teams. We help you align dynamic executive compensation design with your long-range business and talent management goals.
How Pearl Meyer helps
companies realize exceptional performance.
Get the core responsibility right
Compensation committees must put forth an executive pay plan that attracts, retains, motivates, and rewards—and one that is fair, ethical, transparent, and clearly communicated.
Think boldly and with purpose
Consider not only the current and long-range business goals in your compensation plan design, but also how it influences your broader leadership strategy for ultimate individual and organizational performance.
Maintain an edge
Achieving financial goals, transformational milestones, and a positive culture with an engaged and high performing management team will always set you apart from the competition.
Create catalysts for change
Compensation can impact behavior. We help you ensure the right people are in the right positions and doing the right things to achieve success.
Approach & Partnership
The Pillars of Success
Key Drivers
Business Strategy
- Mission & Vision
- Organization Culture
Pearl Meyer's Role
Executive Compensation
- Develop Philosophy
- Assess Competitiveness
- Design Programs
Leadership
- Develop Leadership Framework
- Assess Leadership & Board Effectiveness
- Coach & Develop
Communications & Disclosures
Key Outcomes
Exceptional Business Results
- High Performance Leadership & Culture
Our Services
Strategic Review
- Short-, medium-, and long-term business goals
- Compensation philosophy
- Leadership profiles
- Historical performance assessment
Compensation Alignment
- Value-driver analysis
- Goal-setting and metric selection
- Dynamic pay modeling; probability and pay leverage analysis
- Pay-for-performance analysis
- Short- and long-term incentive plan design
Market Evaluation
- Peer group selection
- Competitive analysis
- Market-based pay studies
- Contracts, severance, and change-in-control agreements
- Executive benefits and perquisites
Compliance Confidence
- Share plan authorization
- SEC and regulatory advice
- Pay versus Performance calculation
- ISS/Glass Lewis expertise
- Institutional shareholders policies and practices review
Communication
- Plan documentation
- Disclosure requirements
- CD&A development
- Shareholder and stakeholder communication
Meet the Expert

Jane Park
Managing Director | New York
Jane Park is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. With nearly 20 years of experience, Jane advises public and privately-held clients on executive and non-employee director compensation issues. Her work is focused on pay governance, incentive plan design, pay-for-performance alignment, compensation benchmarking, proxy analysis, and special programs for IPO and M&A transactions.
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We work with directors and executives to improve individual leadership effectiveness and create high-performance boards and management teams.
Pearl Meyer is a powerhouse of both survey and proxy data. Our survey team produces over 50 annual compensation surveys and our partner, Main Data Group, offers public company governance and compensation data.