Remuneration

Qantas plans to claw back big incentive payments to former chief executive Alan Joyce after a governance review concluded there had been “too much deference to a long-tenured CEO”.

Austin Engineering has 12 months to find a new chief after David Singleton gave notice of his retirement following a three-year stint at the helm, which has earned him almost $20 million.

Elizabeth Gaines will be paid a $1.2 million salary after taking up a part-time executive director role at Fortescue Metals Group, while Jenn Morris has resigned from the company's board.

The new leadership at Monadelphous Group has outlined a targeted approach to new work while acknowledging delays in contract awards will lead to a fall in first-half revenue.

Fortescue executives will have their bonuses tied to emissions reduction targets under a new albeit vague incentive structure tabled by chairman Andrew Forrest at the group’s AGM this morning.

Nurses and midwives have voted to double their pay claim against the McGowan government to 10 per cent a year for two years.

Pilbara Minerals boss Dale Henderson has become one of Western Australia’s best-paid executives after his base salary was boosted to $1.25 million.

Fixed pay bands across PwC Australia for the next financial year have been released, showing how partners are able to accumulate millions per year.

While lower returns on equity have flowed through to WA’s top earners this year, the river has hardly run dry for the top end of town.

Perth business woman Megan Wynne attracted national headlines last month when she was hailed as Australia’s newest billionaire, yet recent disclosures by her company indicate that was never the cas

NRW Holdings’ shareholders have lodged multiple protest votes at today’s annual general meeting while also supporting a lift in the company’s share price.

Engineering and construction firm Calibre Group is offering former employees $10,000 in company shares as an incentive to rejoin the business as labour shortages bite.

Resolute Mining has permanently appointed Stuart Gale as its managing director while recruiting former Paramount Mining Corporation boss Terry Holohan as chief operating officer.

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Four former executives at Rio Tinto were paid a total of $57 million last year, with Sam Walsh and JS Jacques getting the biggest payouts.

BDO has recruited three experienced staff to bolster its Perth-based remuneration and reward practice as it gears up to service new industries and geographies.

BDO’s latest edition of the Explorer Quarterly Cash update reflects confirms that the growth in exploration expenditure has been across the board and is not being artificially inflated by significa

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The statutory pay reported by listed companies tells only part of the story. Some companies also report ‘actual’ pay.

Business News’s in-depth remuneration survey shines a light on the state’s high-income earners.

NRW Holdings managing director Jules Pemberton has sold 3.65 million shares to fund personal tax liabilities, at a price that was less than half the January peak in the company's share price.

Fortescue Metals Group chair Andrew Forrest has purchased an additional $242 million worth of shares in the company, shortly after Perth-based executives of other leading companies, including Peter Coleman, Ian Testrow and Bill Beament, also made big trades.

Mining executives Bill Beament and Raleigh Finlayson have highlighted the way in which equity incentives can deliver big returns.

Our comprehensive annual survey of chief executive remuneration shows wide variation across companies.

Northern Star Resources executive chairman Bill Beament has been handsomely rewarded for the gold miner’s strong performance over the past few years, with the recent exercising of three million performance rights.

Another flurry of substantial share transactions from directors of Perth-based ASX-listed companies have occurred recently following the release of annual results, with David Singleton, Elizabeth Gaines and Rodney Leonard among those involved in the largest deals.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce was Australia's highest-paid chief executive last year, according to a survey based on 'realised' pay, which also ranked Saracen Mineral Holdings managing director Raleigh Finlayson in the top 10.

Directors of several Perth-based ASX-listed companies have undertaken substantial share transactions in the past fortnight, with Peter Bradford, Peter Cook and John Welborn among those taking advantage of the trading window after the release of their annual results.

South32’s Graham Kerr, NRW Holdings’ Jules Pemberton and Saracen Mineral Holdings’ Raleigh Finlayson have received one-off benefits totalling $10.4 million, following the vesting of performance shares.

Millennium Minerals has appointed Warren Hallam as managing director, marking Mr Hallam’s return as the leader of a junior miner since his short-lived stint at Capricorn Metals ended abruptly in March.

Swift Media founder Robert Sofoulis is set to pocket a windfall of about $3.8 million after the vesting of performance shares, despite the company expecting its underlying earnings to fall by over 7 per cent for the 2019 financial year.