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Executive Compensation provides named-executive pay as disclosed in a US company’s proxy statement, Form DEF 14A. Each observation is one executive for one fiscal year, in US dollars, broken into the components the summary compensation table reports. Fiscal years from 2000 onward are covered.
Plan: Professional and above · Credits: 1 per call

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What You Can Use Executive Compensation For

Track a chief executive’s pay over time, and separate cash from equity. Compare pay mix across a peer group. Measure the gap between disclosed pay and realised pay. Cross compensation against proxy ownership, which comes from the same filing.

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Executive Compensation Coverage

Coverage is US companies that file a DEF 14A proxy statement, for fiscal years from 2000. A company absent from this dataset filed no DEF 14A that FocusAlpha holds. Foreign private issuers file Form 20-F instead of a proxy statement and are therefore not in this dataset — see Form 20-F for those.

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Key Executive Compensation Fields

person_name, position and is_ceo identify the executive. fiscal_year is the year the pay relates to. company_id and ticker identify the filer. The components are salary, bonus, stock_award, option_award, non_equity_incentive, pension and other.

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The Two Executive Compensation Totals

Two totals travel with every row and they are not interchangeable. total_disclosed is the figure the company printed in its proxy statement. total_computed is the sum of the components as extracted. component_gap is true when the two disagree, which means a component failed to extract. When it is true, cite total_disclosed and treat the component breakdown as incomplete.

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Executive Compensation Date Convention

fiscal_year is the company’s fiscal year that the compensation relates to, not the calendar year the proxy was filed. A proxy filed in spring 2026 typically reports fiscal 2025 pay.

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Executive Compensation Sources

Figures are read from the summary compensation table of the company’s own DEF 14A filing on SEC EDGAR. Nothing is estimated. total_computed is the only calculated field, and it exists to check the extraction against the filing.

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Query Executive Compensation

Use the executive compensation endpoint for one company, newest fiscal year first.
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string
required
A ticker, CIK, ISIN, or canonical cmp_ id.
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integer
One fiscal year. fiscal_year_gte and fiscal_year_lte bound a range.
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boolean
Return only the chief executive’s rows.
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integer
default:"100"
Rows per page, between 1 and 1000. Page through with cursor.
See also Proxy Ownership for beneficial ownership from the same proxy statement, Insider Trades for what these executives actually bought and sold, and SEC Filings Index for the underlying DEF 14A.