Compensation Consulting Services for the Oil and Gas Sector

Many of the world’s leading oil and gas companies look to Pearl Meyer to develop and deploy customized executive, employee, and director compensation programs.

Customized Programs for Long-Term Value Creation
Despite a highly cyclical and global market, the oil and gas industry manages to sustain long-term growth and to produce significant value creation. New technologies and techniques, strong and consistent focus on research and development, and calculated risk-taking continue to create new opportunities for companies across the oil and gas value chain.

How We Partner with You

We help boards and senior leaders motivate and reward talent, creating world-class organizations.

We are your trusted advisors

The industry’s cyclical nature can result in occasional downturns and periods of reassessment and realignment. Our specialized energy consultants help oil and gas companies to develop competitive compensation programs that help to attract new talent, retain existing talent, and maintain a focus on the execution of long-range business strategy.

Take advantage of our experienced insight

Our consultants create reward strategies from the C-Suite to the broad-based employee population for companies across the oil and gas value chain. Our clients range from small, privately held organizations to Fortune 100 firms and global energy players from Italy to Malaysia across all segments of the oil and gas industry: upstream, midstream, and downstream.

You get tailored solutions

Our consultants connect business and leadership strategies, analytics, and compliance frameworks to solve problems. The result is a compensation program design that is tailored to your unique circumstances and is aligned with how you manage and develop the talent within your organization. 

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Compensation’s Role in Your Strategy

Many of the world’s leading oil and gas companies—across all segments of the industry—look to Pearl Meyer to develop and deploy customized executive, employee, and director compensation programs. These pay programs act as a catalyst to help your organization realize its business strategy and achieve long-term value creation.

Our specialized team will help you:

  • Design effective and competitive executive and director pay programs
  • Assess historic, current, and planned goals and the overall goal-setting process
  • Model potential plan outcomes against historical performance and peers, and offer a look at the financial and earnings implications
  • Review the effects of share price erosion against share plan balances and projected grant practices
  • Evaluate leadership impact and create individual and group-based development plans to increase overall leadership effectiveness
  • Look ahead to assess and plan for the impact of regulatory, governance, and proxy advisor influence

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

Energy Industry Compensation Surveys

US Energy Services Salary Survey

The US Energy Services Survey is comprised of the following job functions: Executive, Line, and Staff Management; Marketing, Business Development, and Sales; Engineers and Scientists; US Manufacturing; and Field (Includes Field Engineers, Operations Supervision, Field Specialists, Operations Support, and Field Technical Support).

Offshore Drilling Membership Group Salary Surveys

The Drilling Management Survey (DMS) covers 66 benchmark jobs in the Offershore Drilling Industry. Included are senior executives, line management jobs, and staff management jobs. The Rig Crew Survey (RCS) covers 60 benchmark jobs working on offshore rigs, including bottom-bearing, floaters, and dynamic positioning rigs.
Industry Perspectives

Energy-Related Services

Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting

Our specialized M&A consultants have been advising clients undergoing transactions and changes to their business models for more than 25 years, across a wide range of clients and industries. We have managed compensation matters on the smallest transactions to deals exceeding $40 billion in value.

Leadership Consulting

A strong board and management team are the keys to your organization’s success. Our Leadership consultants help clients to assess, select, develop, and appropriately compensate a qualified and diverse team of leaders to help organizations achieve their goals.
Strategy-Driven Consulting

We believe in the power of connecting compensation and leadership strategy to help our clients enable and reward individual and organizational success. 

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Survey and Governance Data

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. 

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At Pearl Meyer, we work with boards and organizations to design and implement compensation and leadership strategies that build great management teams.
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