{"id":22229,"date":"2011-03-15T10:32:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22229"},"modified":"2011-03-15T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T18:32:42","slug":"zumiez-ceo-gets-a-salary-doubling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22229","title":{"rendered":"Zumiez CEO Gets A Salary Doubling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zumiez-notagline.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/zumiez-notagline.jpg','popup','width=483,height=97,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/zumiez-notagline-tm.jpg\" height=\"40\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Zumiez-Notagline\" \/><\/a>By all accounts core mall retailer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zumiez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zumiez<\/a><\/strong> was getting a pretty good deal by only paying their CEO <strong>Richard Brooks<\/strong> $262,500 a year in salary. But, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2014496668_bdigzumiez15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, those bargain days are over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everett-based retailer Zumiez said Monday it will pay Chief Executive Officer Richard Brooks an annual base salary of $613,200, more than double the $262,500 a year he had been paid. . . Zumiez cited Brooks&#8217; 18-year tenure with the youth-oriented retailer, its strong financial performance in 2010, and a desire to bring his salary &#8220;closer to the 40th percentile peer group target.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The company made $24.2 million in profit last year so it&#8217;s probably about time. Wonder if this new policy on salaries will trickle down? Hope so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2014496668_bdigzumiez15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By all accounts core mall retailer Zumiez was getting a pretty good deal by only paying their CEO Richard Brooks $262,500 a year in salary. But, according to a story in the Seattle Times, those bargain days are over. Everett-based retailer Zumiez said Monday it will pay Chief Executive Officer Richard Brooks an annual base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22230,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22229\/revisions\/22230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}