Pearl Meyer & Partners

Pearl Meyer & Partners was founded in 1989, and has since built a reputation as a leading advisor to senior management and Boards on aligning executive compensation with leadership and business strategy – showing how pay programs are a powerful catalyst for competitive advantages and value creation. The firm has offices in major U.S. cities including Atlanta, New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Charlotte, London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The firm has clients worldwide that are leaders in their industries, ranging from emerging not-for-profit, high-growth, and private companies to the Fortune 500.

In the current business environment, executive pay regulations are increasingly strict and shareholders want greater value for their money. The firm provides a comprehensive methodology when addressing compensation planning, with over 100 professionals working with senior management and boards to develop executive reward programs aligning with the company’s leadership and business strategy.

The core practices of the firm handle executive compensation and services from compensation strategy, design, and implementation, as well as communication of pay programs. The firm’s professionals help develop salary programs, compensation philosophy and guiding principles, annual short-term and long-term incentives, contracts, severance agreements, change-in-control arrangements, competitive intelligence, value creation and performance measurement, equity programs, and compensation surveys. Pearl Meyer additionally conducts extensive research, so it can be an effective, up-to-date resource with dependable benchmarking.

Specialties of the firm include: Compensation Surveys, Executive Compensation, Director Compensation, Broad-Based Employee Compensation Consulting, and Compensation Governance.