Jul. 12, 2025
Dear SEC Commissioners, We support keeping, and even expanding, the SEC’s strong disclosure rules for executive compensation. We are a retired military family (Dan spent 20 years in the US Navy) and are now senior citizens in the sunset of our lives. We have always been modest investors. People who invest deserve to be able to make informed decisions — and that means choosing companies that are responsible with their money. By requiring corporations to disclose the ratio of CEO pay to median employee pay and how executive compensation relates to the company’s performance, people can support companies that don’t enrich their leaders while hurting their employees or the rest of the organization. By allowing companies to claw back compensation given to executives based on false achievements, investors can feel safer knowing it’s harder for the company to be exploited. Please do not weaken these or other disclosure requirements for executive compensation. Investors deserve this information so that they can make smart financial decisions for themselves and reward responsible companies with their attention. Thank you for giving our requests, and that of tens of thousands of other citizens, your most serious and thoughtful consideration. Dan and Jan Blair Joseph, OR