>I was reading recently (in Modern Healthcare's executive compensation
>survey, actually) that because of the new accounting rules that require
>stock options to be counted as an expense, stock options are now declining
>as a percentage of the "long-term incentives" component of executive pay.
>Any word on what's replacing them?
Can't say I've seen anything on that yet. You could pose as a journalist and ask some headhunter of compensation consultant (John Challenger of Challenger Gray & Christmas is a publicity hound).
Doug