Mooresville, North Carolina Retailer Lowe's Companies Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase Was a Reasonable 4.2% Per Year During the Past Ten Years

I think that Pete Buttigieg was the clear winner in last night's debate, very successfully warding off a vicious barrage of strange attacks from several parties.  Amy Klobuchar was the clear loser, attacking Pete irrationally as if she were acting in desperation.  Her nastiness here is consistent with the rumor that she does not treat her own staff well.

I have researched and made posts related to Top-Tier Executive Total Compensation in most of the largest companies headquartered in the four earliest 2020 Democratic Primary States ..... Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

Then, of the 14 Super Tuesday US States holding their 2020 Democratic Presidential Primaries on March 3, 2020, I made like posts related to most of the largest Texas Companies, most of the largest Southern California companies and also most of the largest technology companies headquartered in Northern California.

My research has shown that Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Tom Steyer are all spot on when they assert that US Corporate Financial Corruption is rampant.  But the problem is that none of the three have any clue on precisely the cause or how to effectively fix this huge problem which is also the primary cause of the huge, continuing US income inequality expansion which has been occurring for decades.

But even worse, even though he is a very nice man, Joe Biden is so naive that he isn't even aware of the extent of this continuing huge US income inequality expansion or precisely its cause which has been occurring under his nose for the past forty plus years, nor is he aware of, or else has decided to ignore, just how huge the largest US tax shelters are which are located right under his nose in his home State of Delaware, mostly in one Wilmington building.

On the negative side, voting for many years for the Annual Income Tax Loophole Extenders which dramatically increased income inequality expansion each year were Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar.  On the positive side, voting for many years against these same Annual Income Tax Loophole Extenders were Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

So now I will be addressing Top-Tier Executive Compensation for five to ten years in some of the largest companies in the State of North Carolina, one of the 14 Super Tuesday 2020 Democratic Presidential Primary US States.  I first addressed some of the largest North Carolina Financial Companies and now I am addressing some of the largest North Carolina Non-Financial companies.

I will be doing this research mostly by stock market capitalization and thus the first North Carolina non-financial company that I am addressing here is Retailer Lowe's Companies Inc.

From annual compensation information contained in Proxy Statement filings with the US SEC, the chart below shows Lowe's Companies Inc's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of the two consecutive full years of employment for the past ten years.  

Lowe's Companies Inc's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase was a reasonable 4.2% per year during the past ten years.

	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
Lowe's Companies	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
Marvin Ellison CEO	N/A	N/A
David Denton CFO	N/A	N/A
Joseph McFarland EVP Stores	N/A	N/A
Jennifer Weber EVP Human Resources	2,844	2,830		2,830	3,289		N/A	N/A
Ross McCanless General Counsel	2,831	2,417		2,417	2,650		N/A	N/A
Robert Niblock Former Chair and CEO	N/A	N/A		11,209	12,670		12,670	13,155		13,155	14,280		14,280	18,714
Marshall Croom Former CFO	N/A	N/A
Michael McDermott FormerChiefCustomerOff	N/A	N/A
Robert Hull Former CFO				N/A	N/A		3,734	3,829		3,829	4,019		4,019	5,451
Rick Damron COO				4,189	4,701		4,701	4,916		4,916	5,285		5,285	7,137
Michael Jones Chief Customer Officer							N/A	N/A		4,922	3,953		N/A	N/A
Maureen Ausura Chief Human Resource Officer										2,782	2,919		2,919	3,866
Totals	5,675	5,247		20,645	23,310		21,105	21,900		29,604	30,456		26,503	35,168
Annual % Change vs Prior Year	8.2%			-11.4%			-3.6%			-2.8%			-24.6%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		-6.9%
	FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE		FYE	FYE
Lowe's Companies	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
Robert Niblock Former Chair and CEO	18,714	12,136		12,136	11,643		11,643	12,050		12,050	11,667		11,667	11,293
Robert Hull Former CFO	5,451	3,489		3,489	3,461		3,461	3,573		3,573	3,660		3,660	3,367
Rick Damron COO	7,137	3,711		N/A	N/A
Maureen Ausura Chief Human Resource Officer	3,866	2,558		N/A	N/A
Gregory Bridgeford Chief Customer Officer	7,255	4,163		4,163	3,133		3,133	3,207		3,207	3,269		3,269	3,023
Joseph Mabry Digital Interfaces Executive				3,582	2,893		N/A	N/A
Larry Stone President and COO										5,852	5,994		5,994	5,431
Charles Canter Merchandising										3,340	3,433		3,433	3,182
Totals	42,423	26,057		23,370	21,130		18,237	18,830		28,022	28,023		28,023	26,296
Annual % Change	62.8%			10.6%			-3.1%			0.0%			6.6%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change		15.4%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change		4.2%