But last year it did something that used to be seen only on insider committees. It turned a bad year for shareholders into a good year for the boss.
Dominion is no longer the exception, it's the rule.
Nearly a decade ago, that wasn't the case. Those benchmarks become even more important in a market that frequently doesn't reward old-economy companies, even those that perform relatively well. But governance experts say that part of the CEO's job is communicating the company's success to the market. Besides, they say, rewarding yeoman-like performance with princely paychecks is at the very least unseemly when shareholders have taken it on the chin. A decade of reforms to prevent insiders from giving CEOs the key to the company vault has had some impact.