Resources > S&P Executive Compensation (Execucomp)"

Access

  1. Go to Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
  2. Click "Home" on the left
  3. Click "COMPUSTAT North America" on the top of the dataset list
  4. Go to Other Products on the left, click "Executive Compensation"

Overview

Executive Compensation database contains over 2500 companies. It covers the current S&P 1500, companies that used to be part of the 1500, trading companies removed from the index, and some client requests. Data collection on the S&P 1500 began in 1994 while most of the S&P 500 has data back to 1992.

The data is collected from annual proxy of each company. The data is filed 120 days after the fiscal year end of each company. ExecuComp collects up to 9 executives for a given year. The number of entries obtained depends on the number of executives filed in the companies' proxy statement.

For more questions about the database, you can go to "Support" on the left of Wharton Research Data Service web site. Choose "Dataset Overviews"

Features:
  • Over 80 different compensation related data items (Link to description of each data items: http://umi.compustat.com/docs-mi/help/execdefs.htm)
  • Coverage of each company's top 5 executive officers
  • Comparable data across companies & industries
  • Over 35 measures of company financial performance
  • Companies contained in the S&P 500, S&P 400 MidCap and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes
  • Data is updated annually and covers from 1992 to present