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Annual total remuneration ratio

Revised ESRS 2026

ESRS Standard

41. The undertaking shall disclose:

  • (b) the annual total remuneration ratio of the highest-paid individual to the median annual total remuneration for all employees (excluding the highest-paid individual).


AR incl. calculation

AR 35. When compiling the information required by paragraph 41(b), the undertaking shall:

  • (a) include all employees;

  • (b) include base salary, which is the sum of guaranteed, short-term and non-variable cash compensation;

  • (c) include, depending on the undertaking’s remuneration policies, all of the following:

    • i. benefits in cash, such as cash allowances, bonuses, commissions, cash profit-sharing and other forms of variable cash payments;

    • ii. benefits in-kind, such as cars, private health insurance, life insurance and wellness programs; and

    • iii. total fair value of all annual long-term incentives (for example, stock option awards, restricted stock shares or units, performance stock shares or units, phantom stock shares, stock appreciation rights and long-term cash awards);

    • (d) apply the following formula for the annual total remuneration ratio:

      Annual total remuneration for the undertaking’s highest-paid individual

      ________________________________________________________

      Median employee annual total remuneration (excluding the highest-paid individual)


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