Sunday, November 3, 2019

Tupelo, Mississippi-Based Bank Renasant's Top-Tier Executive Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase Was a Very Clean and Very Robust 17.5% Per Year During the Most Recent Three Years and a Very Robust 14.8% Per Year During the Most Recent Ten Years

The State of Mississippi is holding its 2019 Governor's election on November 5, 2019.

Thus I think it would be helpful to research the extent of income inequality expansion in the State of Mississippi in the most recent years.

So far in my research of large US Corporations I have shown that their Top-Tier Executives have been rewarded continually with just enormous annual increases in pay and employee benefits, mostly stock equity compensation, even to the extent that the key issue to US citizens should be the huge and continuing Income Inequality Expansion which is at the core of many critical problems the US faces.

There have been many US Government laws enacted in the past two decades that have substantially increased income inequality expansion including the year after year after year of annual furtive tax extenders of predominately special interests additional tax loopholes, which both the Democratic and Republican Establishments voted for under the radar screen every year just before calendar year end, but nothing was even close to being more income inequality expanding 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 has such massive continuing Income Inequality Expansion ..... it appears to be predominantly about the relative long-term annual pay and employee benefits percentage increases 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.

In my study here of large Mississippi Companies I first covered the large Non-Bank Companies and now I am covering Banking Companies.  I will do this research by largest stock market capitalization and thus the eighth Mississippi Company I am addressing here is Bank Renasant Corp.

From annual compensation information contained in Company Proxy Statement filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the table below shows Renasant's Top-Tier Executives Annual Total Compensation for each of two consecutive full years of employment for the most recent ten years.
   
Renasant Corp's Top-Tier Executives Average Annual Pay and Employee Benefits Increase was a very clean and very robust 17.5% per year during the most recent three years and also a very clean and very robust 14.8% per share during the most recent ten years.


FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec
Renasant Corp 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
McGraw CEO       2,875       3,038       3,038       2,051       2,051       2,531       2,531       2,402       2,402       1,995
Waycaster CEO       2,427       1,385       1,385          893          893          910          910          900          900          766
Chapman CFO       1,587       1,583       1,583          788          788          828          828          782          782          618
Hart EVP       1,123       1,233       1,233       1,047       1,047       1,125       1,125       1,168       1,168       1,140
Cochran EVP       1,258       1,022    
Morgan EVP  N/A   N/A 
Ross EVP          786          862          862          858          858          709
 Totals        9,270       8,261       7,239       4,779       5,565       6,256       6,256       6,110       6,110       5,228
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 12.2% 51.5% -11.0% 2.4% 16.9%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 17.5%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 14.4%
FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE FYE
Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec
Renasant Corp 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
McGraw CEO       1,995       1,524       1,524       1,016       1,016          914          914          724          724          717
Waycaster CEO          766          569          569          433          433          421          421          369          369          365
Chapman CFO          618          450          450          303    
Hart EVP       1,140          943          943          941          941          901          901          844          844          835
Ross EVP          709          560          560          406          406          376          376          366    
Johnson CFO          388          381          381          407          407          354          354          350
 Totals        5,228       4,046       4,434       3,480       3,177       3,019       3,019       2,657       2,291       2,267
Annual % Change vs Prior Year 29.2% 27.4% 5.2% 13.6% 1.1%
5 Year Average Per Year % Change 15.3%
10 Year Average Per Year % Change 14.8%