Friday, February 21, 2020

Oracle's Board of Directors Ethically Steps Up and Slashes the Total Pay Compensation of Oracle's Top Three Executives in 2019. I Wonder How Many Other US Corp Boards of Directors Will Follow Suit? But On the Downside, Oracle's Median Employee Pay Dropped By 7% in 2019? Oracle Has the Detailed Employee Data Available to Explain Why. It Should Inform US Citizens of the Reasons For This Drop.

All of the below information is from Oracle's proxy statements filed with the SEC.

In Fiscal Year Ended (FYE) May 2018, Oracle's Top Three Executives were rewarded with Total Pay Compensation of more than $108 mil each.

In the Fiscal Year Ended May 2019, this Total Pay Compensation was dramatically slashed for these three to $0.966 mil, $1.663 mil and $2.482 mil.

But unfortunately, Oracle also slashed the Total Pay Compensation of its median employee by 7% from $89,887 in FYE 2018 to $83,813 mil in FYE 2019.

I wonder how much the median employee pay was slashed in 2019 for the bottom quintile and the second bottom quintile of Oracle's employees?

The only Democratic Presidential candidate who possesses the contemporary data science and financial skill set as well as a keen understanding of how businesses operate all needed to substantially help move up US Corp median employee pay in the bottom, the second to the bottom and the middle employee quintiles  of the five quintiles of US Corp employees is ..... the data-driven Pete Buttigieg,

The other Top Four Democratic Presidential candidates (Bernie, Biden, Warren and Klobuchar) running in Nevada would like to do this but the US Government hasn't been able to do it for more than forty years.

Why not?  Because the Top Four Democratic Presidential candidates all working in the Washington DC bubble for the US Government for many years have obsolete or no data science skills, obsolete financial skills and have no or an obsolete understanding of how businesses operate in this fast-changing world.  And that obsolescence accelerates with age and especially so with advanced age.

From annual compensation information contained in Proxy Statement filings with the US SEC, the table below shows California-Based Technology Software Company Oracle's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of the two consecutive full years of employment for the past five years.


FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
May May May May May May May May May May
Oracle Corp 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
Lawrence Ellison Chair Chief Technology Officer       1,663   108,932   108,932     41,272     41,272     41,519     41,519     63,640     63,640     67,261
Safra Catz CEO          966   108,282   108,282     40,730     40,370     40,944     40,944     53,244     53,244     37,667
Mark Hurd CEO       2,482   108,295   108,295     40,832     40,832     41,122     41,122     53,245     53,245     37,669
Thomas Kurian President Product Development             73,800     35,760     35,760     35,743     35,743     36,620     36,620     26,713
Edward Screven EVP Chief Corporate Architect     34,169     12,991  N/A   N/A 
John Fowler Former EVP Systems     13,559     13,819     13,819     18,622     18,622     13,441
Totals     39,280   338,500   399,309   158,594   171,793   173,147   173,147   225,371   225,371   182,751
Annual % Change vs Prior Year -88.4% 151.8% -0.8% -23.2% 23.3%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 12.6%