Board of Directors Compensation & Composition Data Sources
Information and data on public companies' executive boards (e.g. who the board members are, how many there are, number of women, etc.) can be found in the following sources.
Large Datasets
ISS ESG – see WRDS access help – Go-to source covering S&P 1500 companies and includes variables about individual board directors back to the 1990s. It includes both compensation and composition (heterogeneous demographic) data.
Under Subscriptions go to ISS ESG. For demographic and psychographic variables and other details about the Directors (e.g. employer, title, age, etc.), use the Directors files. For compensation, use the Incentive Lab > Director Annual Compensation Table.
Compustat: Execucomp – see WRDS access help - Provides individual-level compensation data for Directors of U.S. public firms back to the mid-2000s. It doesn't include demographic data for Directors.
Under Subscriptions go to Compustat - Capital IQ > Execucomp > Annual Compensation.
MSCI GMI Ratings – see WRDS access help– Provides data for directors of ~3,000 US companies from 2001-2018 (it is no longer being updated). It includes information about the Directors' gender, age, and tenure but does not include compensation information.
Under Subscriptions go to MSCI (formerly KLD and GMI) > Directorships.
Enter company name in search box and on company landing page, look in left hand navigation menu for People Summary for information about top executives and board members or Compensation for remuneration data.
Choosing FactSet Web module, enter in Company name in search box and on a company's landing page, look in left hand navigation menu for Activism, Management and Governance > Management & Board.
