Harry Debes, P, CEO Total compensation: $1,621,940 for the year ended May 31, 2008
Salary: $587,500
Bonus: $83,945
Non-equity incentive pay: $439,560
Other compensation: $42,935
Value realized on vesting shares: $468,000
New stock options: 350,000
Total return to shareholders: 5 percent
Note: In August 2007, the Lawson board's compensation committee authorized an updated total compensation study that was completed by the consulting firm Frederic W. Cook last September. Based on that report, and on individual performance compared with individual objectives, the compensation committee approved a base salary increase of $125,000, or 23.8 percent, for Debes.
Director-level management employees also split a $500,000 discretionary bonus awarded by the board's compensation committee for the successful integration of the Intentia International acquisition.
PATRICK KENNEDY
UnitedHealth and Target are in crisis, and others are struggling in ways unseen since the pandemic five years ago. What they all have in common is the high cost of money.
