Pay Governance LLC is an independent firm that serves as a trusted advisor on executive compensation matters. Our work helps to ensure that our clients' executive rewards programs are strongly aligned with performance and supportive of appropriate corporate governance practices.
Critics of executive compensation suggest that CEO pay escalates because companies chase an ever-rising market median driven by comparisons to even larger peer companies and... Read More
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Steve DeMaria is a Consultant at the New York office of Pay Governance. Steve has experience with various aspects of executive compensation including competitive benchmarking for executives, short and long-term incentive plan design, peer group development, and pay-for-performance assessments. Additionally he designs and reviews outside director pay. Steve has also worked on compensation design projects below the executive level. Steve has worked with clients across various industries; he spends the majority of his time with clients in the energy services, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical industries. He has also worked with a number of higher education and non-for-profit clients.
Prior to joining Pay Governance, Steve worked in Philadelphia at Towers Watson's executive compensation practice for more than 2 years.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Pay Governance participated as a panelist in developing the guidelines for pay and performance disclosure recommended in this report sponsored by the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals and The Center On Executive Compensation. The purpose of the project was to develop more consistent language for describing the complexities of pay for performance. This allows companies to present a more convincing case of pay for performance in their CDA.
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