[hackitup7]

The executive compensation team is really interesting – if you read this and have a moment, I'd love to hear anything that you're up for sharing such as:

* Was the purview of the team to craft a compensation "system," or to handle specific decisions / one-offs for exec comp?

* Was there a technical/quantitative aspect to this, ie were you all trying to make data-driven decisions on how to pay executives based upon pulling data, testing what comp packages worked etc, or was it more of a general analyze-the-market-and-make-recommendations process?

* To what extent were you advising CEOs/SVPs vs. actually making a call on what their reports would make comp-wise?

I didn't realize that teams like this (specialized comp analysis for top executives) existed, I always figured that it was baked into existing compensation-focused teams.

[texasbigdata]

Some of this, for the top 5 to 7, is public in the annual proxy; not just at Google but everywhere. Due to the principal agent problem the public data conforms homogeneously due to the retention of consultants to “benchmark”. However it would be fascinating to hear the OPs answer.