Monday, November 5, 2012

OC CIO Minutes October 11, 2012


Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table


 
Present:        Ken Wechsler, David Mann, William Zauner, Jon Grunzweig, Jim Sutter, Joe Desuta, Dave Phillips

 
The following is a list of topics and speakers through January:

 
11/8/12      Google Apps Update                Joe Desuta
12/13/12    Branding and Marketing IT       Joel Manfredo
1/10/13      Controlling Project Costs          Jon Grunzweig

Topic:          Compensation trends

We welcomed Ken Wechsler to our meeting and thanked him for driving up from San Diego early in the morning, in wet weather, to talk about compensation trends.  He started with US forecasts of GDP and unemployment rates, which look to be improving slowly, as do the stock prices. Hiring trends are up, and voluntary turnover is rapidly increasing in San Diego, the Bay Area and in the US in general. In the Life Sciences and Technology overall salary budgets are increasing, and most companies are expecting to pay cash bonuses in 2012.  He shared with us details on individual payouts by level.  Equity strategies include a mix of stock options and RSUs (restricted stock units) as a retention incentive.  He had several slides on the mix of equity vehicle usage and cash by position and level.  His slides on CIO compensation and trends were very interesting, especially the one by organization size:

 

CIO Compensation – By Organization Size

Compensation packages varies significantly by the size of the organization.

 

Component / Org. Size
< $200M
$200M - $1B
> $1B
Base Salary
$208K
$245K
$300K
Target Bonus
30%
35%
50%
Target Total Cash
$254K
$325K
$462K
Annual Equity Grant
$56K
$131K
$177K
Total Direct Comp.
$260K
$458K
$641K

 

Interesting information!  The whole presentation was very interesting and we thanked Ken for taking the time and making the effort to attend our breakfast meeting.  His slides can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio

 

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