Post IPO Deferred Compensation Planning Opportunity

Establishing a DCP for your executives and senior management provides significant benefits to the company and plan participants with no P&L impact to the company. A DCP allows executives to defer income above qualified plan limitations inherent in 401(k) plans, as well as to defer restricted stock units (RSU) and performance stock units (PSU). The ability to defer RSUs/PSUs, which may have significantly increased in value post-IPO, provides a material financial benefit to executives. From the company’s perspective, these compensation deferrals are viewed as a future promise to pay and are typically structured with an offsetting asset to ensure minimal or no P&L impact to the company sponsor. These assets are often held in trust for the benefit of the executives.

Benefits of the Executive

• Pre-tax wealth accumulation opportunity for executives

• Allows pre-tax deferrals of salary, bonus, severance, RSUs and PSUs

• Restores benefits lost due to 401(k) limits

• Allows the executive to maintain the full number of RSUs/PSUs upon vesting as there is no forced sale to pay taxes

• Provides participants with flexible payout options (e.g. retirement, separation, specified date, etc.)

• Allows executives to select from a variety of investment funds including a fixed rate of return

• Benefits are secure as deferred dollars are held in trust by an independent third party given a change in control, change in heart or the company’s inability to pay

• Plan balance is beyond the reach of creditors or judgments of the executives

Benefits of the Executive

• A highly visible benefit

• Provides deferral opportunity with minimal or no impact to corporate earnings

• Cost recovery for the corporation

• Funding dollars can accumulate on a tax-favored basis

• Remain competitive within the industry

• Improves executive retention and attraction

• Maximizes 162(m) deduction

Corporate Cost Summary

• Average Age of Census: 45
• Retirement Age: 65
• Annual Deferral: $1,000,000
• Years to Defer: 7
• Benefit Payout Duration: 20 Years
• Net Rate of Return: 8%
• Corporate Tax Rate: 26.5%
• Benefit Payout Source: Corporate Cash 

More Information

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Who We Are  
Mezrah Consulting, based in Tampa, Florida, is a national executive benefits and compensation consulting firm specializing in plans for sizable publicly traded and 
privately held companies. For more than 30 years, we have focused on the design, funding, implementation, securitization and administration of nonqualified executive benefit programs, and have advised more than 300 companies throughout the U.S.  

As a knowledge-based and strategy-driven company, we offer clients highly creative 
and innovative solutions by uncovering value and recognizing risks that other firms typically do not see. Custom nonqualified benefit plans are administered through our affiliate mapbenefits®, a proprietary cloud-based plan technology platform that provides enterprise plan administration for nonqualified plans, including reporting and functionality for plan participants and plan sponsors.