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Declining to take a bonus is not a pay cut
The executive pay debate still has a way to go when a chief executive can claim the moral high ground for declining to take a bonus after reporting a loss.
This reporting season has seen a string of high profile chief executives reveal they will ‘just’ get their normal pay this year.
The decision is reported as ‘CEO Takes Pay Cut’ when in fact the chief executive will still get his or her base pay plus all the usual perks, it's just the bonuses for good performance that are being held back after a string of poor investment decisions or just an average year because the economy isn't too flash.
It works the same for most workers – no bonus in a bad year – but chief executives and, it seems, the rest of the community have come to think of bonuses as being part of the normal pay for bosses.
After Qantas's Alan Joyce, Bluescope's Paul O'Malley, BHP boss Marius Kloppers have been shown the real world, maybe that expectation will change.