Scrutiny over pay and performance bonuses in the private sector is crossing over to associations, as more boards approve cost-cutting measures and take a closer look at how they compensate leaders in industry groups. Lower base salaries and tighter metrics for performance bonuses have become the new order of the day at the negotiating table for CEOs. “There are no sacred cows,” said David Goch, partner with Webster, Chamberlain & Bean in Washington, D.C., who is hired by trade groups to negotiate CEO contracts. “Boards are looking at their budgets, they’re letting people go and suspending bonuses so they’re absolutely looking at all of their overhead and program… Read More