CEO pay at U.S. companies has taken off again

Aside from the money and the stock, some major executives do very well just in the fringe benefits they're awarded.
ITT Corp. CEO Steven R. Loranger in 2010 received $315,000 worth of such perquisites, including $153,000 worth of personal use of corporate aircraft, $63,000 worth of financial counseling and $37,746 in tax reimbursements to offset the taxable value of other benefits he got, such as the financial counseling.
Aircraft use was also a major fringe benefit for Newell Rubbermaid CEO Mark D. Ketchum in 2010 as he received $371,314 worth of private use of company aircraft.
Xerox Corp. CEO Ursula M. Burns received more than $272,000 in dividend equivalents on unvested stock shares and on shares for which she deferred receipt under a company incentive program. And Xerox Global Customer Operations President Armando Zagalo de Lima received more than $1.1 million in retirement contributions, housing allowance and reimbursement for the Portuguese taxes that weren't deducted from his paycheck that he will have to pay as an expatriate citizen of Portugal.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. CEO James Dimon received $580,000 in such fringe benefits, including $421,458 in moving expenses as he relocated from Chicago to New York City.
Some fringe benefits, such as country club memberships and tax gross-ups, in which companies also paid the taxes on parts of an executive's income, are disappearing, said Kevin Hallock, chairman of Cornell University's Institute for Compensation Studies.
Eastman Kodak Co. as of 2010 instituted a new perks policy that caps private use of corporate aircraft at $100,000 — anything beyond that and the executive will have to reimburse the company.

Total wages earned in the nine-county Rochester/Finger Lakes region for the first nine months of the year were up 2.2 percent over the same period in 2009, according to state Labor Department figures. That's a welcome bit of thawing after the freezes and pay cuts that came with the recession.

At United Technologies Corp., which owns the Lenel Systems International security systems and software firm in Perinton, CEO Louis Chenevert saw his salary jump 11 percent in 2010 to nearly $1.6 million. His $4 million cash bonus — based on yardsticks such as the company's earnings — was a $2.3 million improvement from 2009. Chenevert's pay totaled $7.3 million.

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