Investors have pressed for years to get companies to tie executive pay more closely to performance, and boards have increasingly complied. But now, some investors are questioning just how high they set the bar. Median pay for chief executives of S&P 500 firms reached $11.7 million in 2016, up from $10.8 million a year ago and a postrecession high, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Roughly 60% of their pay came from...

Source: Wall Street Journal June 01, 2017 09:22 UTC