Friday, July 12, 2019

Mastercard Inc Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Clean 13.0% Per Year During the Past Ten Years (2009-2018)

From Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, below are Mastercard Inc's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.

Mastercard's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay Raise of a clean 13.0% per year over the past 10 years is much lower than fellow hot Fintech sector Square's 116.5% per year, PayPal's Holdings 29.3%, and Visa's 18.8%. 

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. 

I just recently have researched and made posts on Top-Tier Executives Long-Term Average Annual Pay Raise per year for each of the 30 Dow Industrial Companies.  Mastercard here is the 11th large non-Dow Technology Company I have made a post on and later I will be making similar posts on many more large non-Dow Companies, both Technology and  Non-Technology ones, in order to an get 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.



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Ajay Banga President and CEO     20,379     18,684     18,684     16,892     16,892     15,538     15,538     13,406     13,406     12,363
Martina Hund-Mejean CFO       7,495       6,642       6,642       5,813       5,813       5,122       5,122       4,717       4,717       4,042
Craig Vosburg President North America       4,719       3,919    
Tim Murphy General Counsel  N/A   N/A 
Gilberto Caldart President International  N/A   N/A 
Ann Cairns Former President International  N/A   N/A        5,301       4,970       4,970       4,442       4,442       4,348       4,348       3,842
Gary Flood President GlobalProducts&Solutions       5,534       5,084       5,084       4,389       4,389       4,493       4,493       4,036
Chris McWilton President North America       5,913       5,064       5,064       3,858
Totals     32,593     29,245     36,161     32,759     32,759     29,491     35,404     32,028     32,028     28,141
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 11.4% 10.4% 11.1% 10.5% 13.8%
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Ajay Banga President and CEO     12,363     11,281     11,281       8,345       8,345     11,856  N/A   N/A         
Martina Hund-Mejean CFO       4,042       3,191       3,191       4,819       4,819       2,523       2,523       2,273       2,273       3,560
Craig Vosburg President North America
Tim Murphy General Counsel
Gilberto Caldart President International
Ann Cairns Former President International       3,842       3,105  N/A   N/A                 
Gary Flood President GlobalProducts&Solutions       4,036       3,354       3,354       3,152       3,152       2,660       2,660       2,464       2,464       2,573
Chris McWilton President North America       3,858       3,982       3,982       3,441       3,441       3,057       3,057       2,753       2,753       2,759
Robert Selander Former CEO     20,017     10,332     10,332     10,364
Totals     28,141     24,913     21,808     19,757     19,757     20,096     28,257     17,822     17,822     19,256
Annual % Change 13.0% 10.4% -1.7% 58.6% -7.4%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change 13.0%