Mercer Human Resource Consulting will release its US study of CEO pay in 350 major industrial and service companies (the “Mercer 350”) on April 9 to The Wall Street Journal for its annual special section on CEO pay.

Attend this special web briefing on Wednesday, April 11, when we’ll sift through all the newly available data for insight on future pay trends and discuss the issues weighing on the minds of board members and the compensation committees today, including:

• Executive pay levels. Get Mercer’s read on the 350 CEO pay packages surveyed. What do the total compensation figures signal?
• Perquisites, benefits and post-termination benefits. In this new disclosure era, what do the filings reveal about changing practices or practices that might need changing?
• Rebalancing the long-term incentive (LTI) mix. Almost all companies are reporting under a full year of option expensing. Initial reaction was dramatic; what does the CEOs’ LTI mix look like now?
• Advances in pay for performance. Companies have long touted a pay for performance philosophy. Have companies made the case that they do pay for performance? What practices seem to be working and what ones aren’t?
• The influence of shareholders. How are institutional and individual investors affecting CEO compensation decisions?