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AAPL » Topics » Executive Officer Benchmarking / Peer Groups.

This excerpt taken from the AAPL DEF 14A filed Apr 16, 2007.
Executive Officer Benchmarking / Peer Groups.   The compensation of the CEO and other executive officers was compared by the Committee’s consultants to data from peer group companies and from published survey data. To identify appropriate peer group companies, management, the Committee and the Committee’s consultants mutually developed the following selection criteria:

1.                Labor market and capital market competitors;

2.                High technology and retail companies (the latter for the Senior Vice President, Retail only); and

3.                Similar pay models and growth experiences.

The fiscal year 2006 peer group companies identified to benchmark all executive officers with the exception of the Company’s Senior Vice President, Retail included:

·  Hewlett-Packard Company

·   Sun Microsystems, Inc.

·  International Business Machines Corporation

·   EMC Corporation

·  Dell Inc.

·   Amazon.com, Inc.

·  Motorola, Inc.

·   Applied Materials, Inc.

·  Sprint Nextel Corporation

·   QUALCOMM Incorporated

·  Intel Corporation

·   Yahoo! Inc.

·  Cisco Systems, Inc.

·   Agilent Technologies, Inc.

·  Comcast Corporation

·   eBay Inc.

·  Xerox Corporation

·   Adobe Systems Incorporated

·  Oracle Corporation

·   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.

·  Texas Instruments Incorporated

 

 

An additional fiscal year 2006 Retail peer group of companies was identified to benchmark the Company’s Senior Vice President, Retail and included:

·  Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

·   Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc.

·  The Gap, Inc.

·   Restoration Hardware, Inc.

·  NIKE, Inc.

·   Sharper Image Corporation

·  Limited Brands Inc.

·   Target Corporation

·  The Gymboree Corporation

·   Tween Brands, Inc.

·  Coach, Inc.

 

 

 

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