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Severance & ExitRestrictive Covenants and Non-Competes in Executive Contracts
Covenants can bind you long after you leave. Here's how to review and negotiate them.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & ExitExecutive Employment Agreement Review, Clause by Clause
Your contract is a set of levers. Here's how to review each clause against the market.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & ExitThe Executive Change-in-Control Agreement, Explained
Read your change-in-control agreement before the deal, not during it. Here's what's in it.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & ExitEquity Acceleration on an Acquisition for Executives
When the company sells, your equity's fate is written in the acceleration terms. Here's how to read them.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Severance & ExitDouble-Trigger Equity Acceleration, Explained
Single or double trigger changes what happens to your equity in a sale. Here's the difference.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Severance & ExitGolden Parachute Payment: A Calculation Example
A step-by-step worked example of a parachute calculation, using illustrative inputs.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & ExitCutback vs Gross-Up Under 280G
Cutback or gross-up? The choice can swing your net outcome materially. Here's the comparison.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & Exit280G Golden Parachute Excise Tax, Explained
280G can quietly erase parachute value. Here's how the excise tax works and when it triggers.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Severance & ExitTypical Severance Multiple for Executives
What's a market severance multiple? Here's what disclosed peer provisions typically show.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Severance & ExitChange-of-Control Severance Multiple: Benchmarking Yours
Is your CoC multiple in market range? Here's how to benchmark it against disclosed peers.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Severance & ExitCEO Severance Negotiation: Reviewing the Terms
The best time to fix severance is at renewal, not at exit. Here's how to review it.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Severance & ExitExecutive Severance Package Negotiation
Severance is negotiated best before you need it. Here's how to benchmark and negotiate it.
Rovaryn Digital · · 10 min read
Negotiation & OffersExecutive Compensation Clawback Provisions
Clawbacks changed after recent rules. Here's how to assess your exposure in a package.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Negotiation & OffersExecutive Offer Letter: What to Actually Negotiate
The salary line is the least of it. Here are the offer-letter terms worth pushing on.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Negotiation & OffersHow to Normalize Competing Job Offers on Total Comp
Normalization is the whole game in a multi-offer search. Here's the disciplined method.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Negotiation & OffersTotal Compensation Calculator for an Executive Offer
Roll salary, bonus, and equity into one comparable total. Here's the method and the tool.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Negotiation & OffersComparing Multiple Executive Job Offers Apples-to-Apples
Three offers, three structures, no single number. Here's how to make them comparable.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Negotiation & OffersHow to Negotiate Equity in an Executive Offer
Equity is where the real value moves. Here's how to negotiate it in an executive package.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Negotiation & OffersC-Level Salary Negotiation: Making the Ask
Anchoring to your last package leaves money on the table. Anchor to the market instead.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Negotiation & OffersNegotiating a C-Suite Job Offer
An offer in hand is leverage only if you know the market. Here's how to negotiate a C-suite offer.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Negotiation & OffersExecutive Compensation Negotiation: A Sourced Playbook
A calm, evidence-first playbook for negotiating executive comp from a position of sourced strength.
Rovaryn Digital · · 10 min read
Negotiation & OffersHow to Negotiate a CEO Compensation Package
The board comes to the table with data. Here is how to bring your own sourced case.
Rovaryn Digital · · 11 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Pay Ratio by Industry: Reading It in Context
Pay ratio only means something in context. Here is how it shifts across sectors.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsWhat Is 'Compensation Actually Paid'?
Compensation actually paid is a new, adjusted number. Here's what it means and why it exists.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsXBRL-Tagged Executive Compensation Data: What's Machine-Readable
Some pay data is machine-readable; the core table isn't. Here's the divide that shapes benchmarking.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsExtracting Signals from the Item 402(v) PvP Table
The 402(v) table is dense but machine-readable. Here is how to extract comparable signals.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsCompensation Actually Paid vs the Summary Compensation Table
CAP and SCT total are not the same number. Here is how to reconcile them cleanly.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsPay-Versus-Performance Disclosure (Item 402(v)), Explained
Pay-versus-performance is machine-readable and cross-checkable. Here is how to read the 402(v) table.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsThe CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure (Item 402(u)), Explained
The pay ratio is machine-readable and revealing. Here is how to read Item 402(u).
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsDEF 14A vs 10-K: Which Filing Has Executive Pay?
Looking for pay in the 10-K? It's usually not there. Here's which filing to open.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsReading the CD&A: Compensation Discussion and Analysis
The CD&A is where the board explains its thinking. Read it to understand how peers set pay.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsThe Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End Table
This table shows what's still unvested. Here is how to read the equity that isn't yet earned.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsHow to Read the Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table
A hands-on read of the grants table, row by row, with an annotated example.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsThe Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table, Explained
This table connects the equity dots. Here is how to tie grants back to the total.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsUsing SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search for Executive Compensation
Full-text search turns EDGAR into a peer-finding engine. Here are the queries that work.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsHow to Find CEO Salary on SEC EDGAR
Every public CEO's pay is on EDGAR, for free. Here is exactly how to find it.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsThe Summary Compensation Table, Explained Column by Column
The Summary Compensation Table is the heart of a proxy. Here is every column and where the footnotes hide.
Rovaryn Digital · · 9 min read
Reading SEC & 990 FilingsHow to Read a DEF 14A Proxy Statement for Executive Pay
The proxy statement is where public-company pay lives. Here is how to read it end to end.
Rovaryn Digital · · 10 min read
Pay BenchmarksPresident vs CEO Salary: How the Titles Diverge in Pay
Title matters at the top. Here is how President and COO pay tracks against the CEO in disclosed data.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Pay BenchmarksSmall Company CEO Salary When You're the Owner
Owner-CEOs have no direct private comparables. Here is how to bridge to disclosed public peers.
Rovaryn Digital · · 6 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Pay Mix: Salary, Bonus, and Equity in the Total
Two CEOs at the same total comp can have wildly different packages. Pay mix is where the difference lives.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Pay BenchmarksMedian CEO Total Compensation in the Russell 3000
The median is your anchor, not the mega-cap headline. Here is how to read it from disclosed filings.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Salary at a $50 Million Revenue Company
At $50M revenue, disclosed public comparables get sparse. Here is how to build a defensible band anyway.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Pay BenchmarksSmall-Cap CEO Compensation: Benchmarking Below the Mega-Caps
Small-cap CEO pay follows different rules than the headline mega-cap numbers. Here is your band.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Pay BenchmarksRussell 3000 CEO Compensation: The Universe You Actually Belong To
Most public-company CEOs benchmark against the wrong universe. Here is why the Russell 3000 is your reference set.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Total Compensation Percentile: Where Your Package Really Sits
Boards target percentiles, not dollar figures. Here is how to locate your package in the distribution.
Rovaryn Digital · · 8 min read
Pay BenchmarksAverage CEO Salary by Company Size: Reading the Bands
Averages mislead on executive pay. Here is how to read disclosed bands by company size the way a comp committee does.
Rovaryn Digital · · 7 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Salary by Industry: Why Sector Changes the Number
Sector reshapes both the level and the mix of CEO pay. Here is how to read your industry against disclosed peers.
Rovaryn Digital · · 10 min read
Pay BenchmarksHow to Benchmark Your Own Executive Salary Against Public Filings
The comp committee across the table already has structured comparables. Here is how an individual executive builds the same sourced, percentile-positioned case from public filings.
Rovaryn Digital · · 15 min read
Pay BenchmarksCEO Pay by Company Size: How Revenue Band Shapes Total Comp
Company size is the single strongest driver of CEO pay. Here is how to read revenue band against disclosed peer packages.
Rovaryn Digital · · 9 min read
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