UK vs US Private Company Compensation
Welcome back to the Thelander Digest for July. Last year, we explored global compensation data for private companies, and this year, we’ve significantly deepened our scope. In collaboration with the BioIndustry Association (BIA) in London, we have launched the Private Company UK Compensation Initiative, enhancing our offerings with real-time compensation data specifically tailored for the UK market. […]
Private Company Compensation by Financing vs. Series
Welcome back to the Thelander Private Company Digest for June. Last month, we released a new filter on our platform allowing users to customize their search by most recent series raised. In honor the new feature, we decided to analyze how customizing compensation by series versus total amount of financing impacts compensation for the most senior […]
Private Company Salary Structures: Entry Level Pay Bands & Equity
It’s commencement season, which means many college graduates will soon be on the hunt for their first career jobs – with many looking to the private capital markets to jumpstart their careers. This could prove challenging in this economy, where landing a well-paid job is extremely competitive, coupled with fewer entry-level job openings. However, for companies […]
Private Company Non-Investor Board Member Compensation
One of the most frequently asked questions we get from our survey participants and clients is about how to compensate non-investor/independent board members. Non-investor board members contribute to private company boards because they typically have industry knowledge and valuable contacts that can help the company succeed. By appointing an independent member, the board can also […]
Private Company CEO Compensation by Valuation & Financing
In September 2022, Fortune used Thelander data to look at CEO compensation by financing and valuation. With the challenging fundraising environment, private companies staying private longer and shifting valuations, we wanted to see how the data has changed. Chart 1 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by total financing. Our data shows: Chart 2 looks at CEO median total cash year-over-year by valuation. Compensation by valuation […]
How are Life Science Male and Female CEOs Compensated Differently?
In March 2023, we looked at the gender pay gap for life science CEOs. Almost a year later, we are sharing new data from the Thelander Private Compensation dataset, which looks at the number of female CEOs in life sciences and investigates how the gender pay gap is panning out for privately held life science companies in 2024. […]
Private Company Salary Increases for Staff-Level Employees: 2021–2024
Welcome back to the first Private Company Digest of 2024. Following a successful week at the J.P.Morgan Healthcare Conference, we hosted a women’s event at Tiffany & Co honoring more than 300 women executives and investment professionals. You can find pictures here. This month we are diving deeper into the results from the Salary Increase & Bonus Survey, which […]
How are Salary Increases Impacted by Total Amount of Financing?
In this month’s Thelander Digest, we are excited to give you a peak at some of our findings from the Thelander 2023 Year-End Merit Increase, Option Pool & Bonus Survey. With more than 350 participating companies, the survey was a huge success. We explore how CEO salary increases at private companies are impacted by the total amount […]
What is Venture Debt?
Welcome back to the Thelander Private Company Digest. We have a special November edition with a guest writer, Jonathan Norris, who is a Managing Director at HSBC Innovation Banking. In our newsletter, he clearly explains everything you wanted to know about venture debt financing. We’ll let him break it down for you! 1. What is venture […]
How Does Gender Impact Compensation?
Lately, women in the workforce have been regularly making headlines. We’ve seen topics such as the “number of women in the workforce tops pre-pandemic levels for the first time” and that “more mothers are working than ever before.” Thus, for our October newsletter, we are taking a look at gender compensation data for CEOs. In the […]