Booking Holdings Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Robust 23.9% Per Year During the Past Ten Years (2009-2018)

From Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, in the chart below at the very bottom of this post are Booking Holdings Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.

Booking Holdings Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise was a robust 23.9% per year for the past ten years and was pretty much in the middle of the pack of the 28 very large US Technology Companies I have researched and made posts on, as you can see in the below chart.

		NEO
		Top-Tier
		Executives
		Average	Number
		Pay Raise %	of
	US Largest Technology Companies	Per Year	Years
1	Twitter	796.6%	6
2	Amazon	659.0%	10
3	Apple	306.1%	10
4	Alphabet	240.2%	10
5	Workday	136.9%	7
6	Broadcom Inc	119.3%	10
7	Square Inc	116.5%	4
8	salesforce.com	60.4%	10
9	Microsoft	32.4%	10
10	Netflix	30.2%	10
11	PayPal Holdings	29.3%	2
12	Analog Devices	28.7%	10
13	VMware	27.1%	10
14	ServiceNow	24.2%	6
15	Booking Holdings	23.9%	10
16	Qualcomm	22.2%	10
17	Visa	18.8%	10
18	Intuit	16.1%	10
19	Cisco Systems	16.0%	10
20	Adobe	15.6%	10
21	Oracle	15.1%	10
22	Micron Technology	13.8%	10
23	Mastercard	13.0%	10
24	NVIDIA	12.7%	10
25	Intel	11.3%	10
26	IBM	9.9%	10
27	Texas Instruments	7.3%	10
28	Facebook	2.8%	7

To fix Income Inequality driven mainly by Company and its Board of Director choices on Percentage Annual Pay Raises, the US Government should step in and pass wisely-designed Fair Pay Raise Income Inequality Narrowing Company tax incentives ..... the carrot ..... and Company wise tax disincentives ..... the stick.  

And the continuing annual net tax revenues raised by the US Government here should be set up in a separate fund to be used only for wise additional income inequality narrowing initiatives.  This fund should be run by an outside group made up entirely of minorities harmed the most by Income Inequality Expansion of the past decades  .....all women, all blacks, all Latinos, all other non-white people, all past and present union members, all LGBTQ, all non-employee contract workers and all middle and lower income people of all ages.

Also, the US Government should require all US Corporate Boards to include at least one worker representative and to exclude any Company Executive. 

With Booking Holdings here I have researched and made posts on 28 very large US Technology Companies.  I now will turn my attention to large Non-Dow, Non-Technology Companies and I will start with the US Retailers.  

My objective is to get an even better handle on just why the US has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay raise percentages, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the Top-Tier Executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec
Booking Holdings	2018	2017		2017	2016		2016	2015		2015	2014		2014	2013
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
Glenn Fogel CEO	20,459	27,774		27,774	6,323		6,323	5,727		5,727	5,524		5,524	5,323
David Goulden CFO	N/A	N/A
Daniel Finnegan Former CFO	N/A	N/A		6,124	6,023		6,023	5,724		5,724	5,526		5,526	5,323
Gillian Tans CEO, Booking.com	14,471	13,653		13,653	17,103		17,103	6,270		N/A	N/A
Peter Millones General Counsel	6,431	6,339		6,339	6,538		6,538	5,743		5,743	5,541		5,541	5,338
Jeffrey Boyd Chairman of the Board	N/A	N/A		N/A	N/A
Darren Huston Former CEO							N/A	N/A		15,006	21,966		21,966	17,878
Christopher Soder CEO priceline.com													5,221	5,368
Totals	41,361	47,766		53,890	35,987		35,987	23,464		32,200	38,557		43,778	39,230
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	-13.4%			49.7%			53.4%			-16.5%			11.6%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
	Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec		Dec	Dec
Booking Holdings	2013	2012		2012	2011		2011	2010		2010	2009		2009	2008
Top-Tier	Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total		Total	Total
Executive	Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp		Comp	Comp
	$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s		$ 000s	$ 000s
Glenn Fogel CEO	5,323	3,323		3,323	2,663		N/A	N/A
David Goulden CFO
Daniel Finnegan Former CFO	5,323	3,073		3,073	2,488		2,488	2,248		2,248	1,648		N/A	N/A
Gillian Tans CEO, Booking.com
Peter Millones General Counsel	5,338	3,338		3,338	2,578		2,578	2,338		2,338	1,713		1,713	2,053
Jeffrey Boyd Chairman of the Board	15,058	10,308		10,308	9,058		9,058	7,483		7,483	4,280		4,280	6,724
Darren Huston Former CEO	17,878	7,720		N/A	N/A
Christopher Soder CEO priceline.com	N/A	N/A											1,714	2,063
Kees Koolen Chairman Booking.com							7,969	6,134		6,134	3,173		3,173	6,898
Robert Mylod Vice Chairman										5,803	2,917		2,917	4,522
Totals	48,920	27,762		20,042	16,787		22,093	18,203		24,006	13,731		13,797	22,260
Annual % Change	76.2%			19.4%			21.4%			74.8%			-38.0%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		23.9%