Impact of events on LTI goal setting for performance-based LTI plans at US and Canada public companies
Mercer’s 2025/2026 Year End Executive Incentive & Benefits Survey asked publicly-traded organizations in the United States and Canada how certain events impacted how they set goals on their 2025 performance-based LTI Plans for Executives.
In both the United States and Canada, economic uncertainty and stock price decline had the most impact on goal-setting for 2025 performance LTI plans; labor shortages had the least impact. Whereas inflation and rising commodity prices was one of the most impactful events for American companies, this did not seem to be a major issue for Canadian companies in setting goals for their LTI plans.
The following are the choices of events that participants could choose from:
- Inflation and rising commodity prices
- Global supply chain issues
- Labor shortages
- Global geo-political conflict
- Economic uncertainty
- Company stock price decline
- Company stock price increase
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Source: Mercer’s 2025/2026 Year End Executive Incentive & Benefits Survey
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