Saturday, August 3, 2019

Ankeny, Iowa-Based Casey's General Stores Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Very Clean, Blistering 24.2% Per Year During the Past 10 Years (April 2010-April 2019)

After the second Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate debate held in Detroit where Cory Booker was the standout performer, where several other non-top-tier candidates performed exceptionally well especially Steve Bullock and where most of the top-tier candidates stumbled, I now will turn my attention to the early primary States and start with Iowa.

The key issue to Iowa citizens should be the huge and continuing Income Inequality Expansion which is at the core of many critical problems the US faces.

Thus I will be doing research and making posts on the average pay raise per year that the Top-Tier Executives of the larger Iowa Companies were rewarded with in the past ten years.

The fourth Iowa Company I am addressing is Casey's General Stores.

From annual compensation information contained in Company Proxy Statement filings with the SEC, the chart at the very bottom below shows Casey's General Stores Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years. 

Casey's General Stores Top-Tier Executive Average Pay Raise was a very clean, blistering 24.2% per year for the last ten years, the second highest of the four Iowa Companies I have addressed so far.
  1. Athene Holding Ltd +116.8% per year for the past three years
  2. Casey's General Stores +24.2% per year for the past ten years
  3. Principal Financial Group +14.4% per year for the past ten years
  4. Rockwell Collins +9.0% per year for the past ten years

 The only highly effective US Government law enacted by either party in the past decade that has substantially reduced income inequality expansion is Obamacare and the political right is continually trying to repeal and replace it and three of the top four Democratic Presidential candidates now leading in the polls are effectively running as their principal issue to do in essence precisely the same thing ..... repeal and replace Obamacare ..... but to do it with either a pure or a version of Medicare For All.  The pure Medicare For All advocated by both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and which was co-sponsored in a US Senate bill by Kamala Harris is off-the-charts enormously expensive and would take up an enormous amount of wasted time with no positive result since it has no chance of getting passed legislatively.  Just given their near-sighted stance on Medicare For All, if the Democratic nominee is any of the three of them, it will be extremely difficult for any of them to beat Trump in the general election.  It is that simple. 

My objective is to get a better handle on just why the US and particularly here Iowa has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay raise percentages for the executives of a Company vs the many non-executives employees of a Company, coupled with the stock price appreciation subsequent to the time the company executives were rewarded in their pay with stock equity compensation.

 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, simple but effective Fair Pay Raise Income Inequality Narrowing Company tax incentives for rewarding non-executive employees with fair pay increases ..... the carrot ..... and Company tax disincentives for rewarding executive employees with clearly excessively high pay increases ..... the stick.  I am certain ..... it is simple math ..... that this tax proposal would be very effective in substantially reducing the huge income inequality expansion that has occurred for decades in annual percentage pay raises between company executives and the rest of the company employees. 

 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, including those retired.

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

FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
April April April April April April April April April April
Casey's General Stores 2019 2018 2018 2017 2017 2016 2016 2015 2015 2014
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
Terry Handley CEO        3,529        2,337        2,337        1,331        1,343        1,852        1,852        1,511        1,511        1,022
William Walljasper CFO        1,905        1,371        1,371        1,012        1,022        1,399        1,399        1,142        1,142           875
Julia Jackowski General Counsel        1,774        1,273        1,273        1,012        1,024        1,312        1,312        1,068        1,068           808
John Soupene SVP Operations        1,414        1,016        1,016           857           857           829  N/A   N/A 
Cindi Summers SVP Human Resources        1,309           942           942           782  N/A   N/A 
Robert Myers CEO        2,779        3,402        3,402        1,727
Sam Billmeyer SVP Logistics and Acquisitions        1,374        1,127        1,127           850
 Totals         9,931        6,939        6,939        4,994        4,246        5,392        8,716        8,250        8,250        5,282
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 43.1% 38.9% -21.3% 5.6% 56.2%
 5 Year Average Per Year % Change 24.5%
FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
April April April April April April April April April April
Casey's General Stores 2014 2013 2013 2012 2012 2011 2011 2010 2010 2009
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
Terry Handley CEO        1,022           542           542        1,055        1,055           557           557           780           780           571
William Walljasper CFO           875           489           489        1,021        1,021           497           497           682           682           473
Julia Jackowski General Counsel           808           437           437           892           892           388           388           411           411           294
John Soupene SVP Operations
Cindi Summers SVP Human Resources
Robert Myers CEO        1,727        1,196        1,196        2,365        2,365        1,219        1,219        1,477        1,477        1,495
Sam Billmeyer SVP Logistics and Acquisitions           850           474           474           984           984           476           476           689           689           476
 Totals         5,282        3,138        3,138        6,317        6,317        3,137        3,137        4,039        4,039        3,309
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 68.3% -50.3% 101.4% -22.3% 22.1%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 23.8%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change 24.2%




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