ESGAUGE Executive Compensation Data
Benchmarking data and analytics for executive and director compensation from public disclosures
Executive Summary
ESGAUGE Executive Compensation Data is an intelligence and benchmarking database that extracts, normalizes, and structures executive and director compensation disclosures from public filings (such as SEC Form DEF 14A proxy statements). The platform covers detailed pay components including base salary, annual bonuses, long-term equity incentives, retirement benefits, and perquisites across public company executives and board members. Designed for corporate compensation committees, HR total rewards leaders, compensation consultants, and institutional investors, ESGAUGE links every data point directly back to source SEC filings for auditable verification. Users can evaluate pay-for-performance alignment, track incentive plan performance metrics (financial, operational, and ESG), examine peer benchmarking groups, and evaluate Say-on-Pay voting results. Data delivery is flexible across multiple channels, including an interactive web application, programmatic REST APIs, and scheduled bulk data extracts (such as CSV or Excel feeds), fitting seamlessly into proprietary valuation and compensation benchmarking workflows.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking executive and board compensation packages against industry peer groups
- Auditing incentive design metrics, pay-for-performance alignment, and Say-on-Pay trends
- Tracing reported compensation figures directly back to source SEC proxy filings for compliance reporting
- Powering compensation consulting and advisory studies with structured disclosure feeds
Features
Visibility
- Interactive Peer Comparison: Compare executive pay across custom peer groups by index, sector, or revenue band.
- Filing Source Viewer: Direct visual link back to original SEC proxy filing tables and narrative text.
Intelligence
- Incentive Metric Analysis: Categorization and frequency tracking of short-term and long-term incentive plan performance metrics.
- Pay-for-Performance Modeling: Evaluations aligning executive realized/granted compensation against company TSR and financial performance.
Support
- Analyst Support: Access to research analysts to assist with custom queries, peer group selection, and methodology clarification.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Cloud-based data warehouse and web portal with RESTful API endpoints and batch flat-file delivery pipelines
- Deployment
- SaaS
- Authentication
- SSO/SAML, API Key
- API Available
- Yes
- MCP Server
- No
Infrastructure
- AWS
Security & Compliance
Encryption: Encryption in transit via TLS and encryption at rest
Pricing
- Model
- Subscription
- Starting Price
- Contact sales
- Target Customer
- Mid-Market,Enterprise
- Contract Type
- Annual
- Free Trial
- No
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