Monday, September 9, 2019

San Antonio, Texas-Based Andeavor Previously Named Tesoro Corp's Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise Was a Bit Messy But Blistering 18.1% Per Year During the Nine Years (2009-2017) Before It Was Acquired By Findlay, Ohio-Based Marathon Petroleum in 2018

The third Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate televised debate will be held in Houston, Texas on September 12, 2019.  Texas is also the home state of Julian Castro and Beto O'Rourke, who have both gained significant momentum in the past month.

The key issue to Texas 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 large Texas Companies were rewarded with in the past ten years.  I completed my study of large Texas Non-Oil &  Companies and now I have started studying large Texas Oil & Gas Companies. 

The 35th Texas Oil & Gas Company I am addressing here is Andeavor.

From annual compensation information contained in Company Proxy Statement filings with the US SEC, the chart at the very bottom below shows Andeavor's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the nine years before it was acquired by Marathon Petroleum in 2018.
  
Andeavor's Top-Tier Executives Average Pay Raise was a bit messy but blistering 18.1%
 per year for these nine years, which is the 13th highest of the 35 large Texas Oil & Gas Companies I have addressed so far.
  1. Cheniere Energy Inc +141.9% per year for the past ten years
  2. Kinder Martin +115.8% per year for the past ten years
  3. Parsley Energy +72.8% per year for the past six years.
  4. Buckeye Partners +60.9% per year for the past ten years
  5. Diamondback Energy +52.9% per year for the past seven years
  6. Targa Resources +46.9% per year for the past ten years
  7. Enlink Midstream +35.7% per year for the past seven years
  8. Concho Resources +31.2% per year for the past ten years
  9. Western Refining +25.8% per year for eight years
  10. Marathon Oil +23.3% per year for the past ten years
  11. CVR Energy +21.9% per year for the past ten years
  12. Energy Transfer Companies +19.2% per year for the past ten years 
  13. Andeavor +18.1% per year for nine years
  14. FMC Technologies +17.1% per year for seven years
  15. Spectra Energy Corp +16.4% per year for seven years
  16. Enterprise Products Partners +16.2% per year for the past ten years
  17. ConocoPhillips +14.8% per year for the past ten years
  18. Pioneer Natural Resources +14.4% per year for the past ten years
  19. Halliburton +14.3% per year for the past ten years
  20. Occidental Petroleum +14.3% per year for the past ten years
  21. Western Gas Partners +13.3% per year for the past ten years
  22. National Oilwell Varco+13.1% per year for the past ten years
  23. The New Baker Hughes, a GE Company +12.2% per year for the past three years  
  24. HollyFrontier Corp +11.2% per year for the past ten years.
  25. Plains All America Pipeline +10.4% per year for the past ten years
  26. Cabot Oil & Gas +10.3% per year for the past ten years
  27. Valero Energy Corp +10.1% per year for the past ten years
  28. The Old Baker Hughes Inc +9.9% per year for eight years excluding Golden Parachutes Pay
  29. Schlumberger Limited +9.6% per year for the past ten years
  30. Apache Corp +8.4% per year for the past ten years
  31. Noble Energy Inc +6.5% per year for the past ten years
  32. Phillips 66 +5.4% per year for the past five years
  33. EOG Resources +5.1% per year for the past ten years
  34. Exxon Mobil +1.2% per year for the past ten years
  35. Anadarko Petroleum +1.1% per year for the past ten years
There have been many US Government laws enacted in the past two decades that have substantially increased income inequality expansion, but none more so than the Trump Tax Cuts Act.   

On the other hand, the only highly effective US Government law enacted by either party in the past two decades that has substantially reduced income inequality expansion is Obamacare.

My objective is to get a better handle on just why the US and particularly here Texas 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-executive 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.

Further, the US Government should ban Golden Parachutes.

FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
  Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec
Andeavor 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
Gregory Goff Chair President and CEO N/A N/A     19,925     18,180     18,180     23,255     23,255     20,856     20,856     13,177
Stevin Sterin CFO N/A N/A       4,394       3,843       3,843       3,943  N/A   N/A     
Keith Casey EVP Commercial and Value Chain N/A N/A       4,101       3,598       3,598       3,989       3,989       2,672    
Kim Rucker General Counsel N/A N/A  N/A   N/A 
Cynthia Warner EVP Operations N/A N/A       3,287       2,734       2,734       3,177  N/A   N/A     
Charles Parrish EVP General Counsel N/A N/A       4,117       5,308       5,308       2,163
Scott Spendlove Former CFO N/A N/A  N/A   N/A 
 Totals  N/A N/A     31,707     28,355     28,355     34,364     31,361     28,836     26,164     15,340
Annual % Change vs Prior Year N/A 11.8% -17.5% 8.8% 70.6%
4 Year Average Per Year % Change   18.4%
FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec
Andeavor 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
Gregory Goff Chair President and CEO     13,177     13,499     13,499       8,811  N/A   N/A     
Charles Parrish EVP       2,163       4,610       4,610       3,639       3,639       2,734       2,734       1,683       1,683       1,622
Scott Spendlove Former CFO       2,011       3,617       3,617       2,515       2,515       1,273    
Daniel Romasko EVP Operations       2,643       3,152  N/A   N/A     
David Kirshner SVP Commercial       1,981       2,380  N/A   N/A     
Everett Lewis Former EVP COO  N/A   N/A        3,589       3,219       3,219       3,488
Bruce Smith Former Chair President and CEO  N/A   N/A        8,752     13,302
Gregory Wright Former CFO  N/A   N/A        2,856       2,234
William Finnerty Former EVP Strategy  N/A   N/A        3,315       3,883
 Totals      21,975     27,258     21,726     14,965       6,154       4,007       6,323       4,902     19,825     24,529
Annual % Change vs Prior Year -19.4% 45.2% 53.6% 29.0% -19.2%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 17.8%
9 Year Average Per Year % Change 18.1%