Discovering Organizational Hierarchy through a Corporate Ranking Algorithm: The Enron Case

Table 7

Compensation and average CorpRank score by hierarchical categories for Enron’s employees. Average bonus includes regular performance bonus and a retention bonus given to a selected group of employees in 2001 according to [59]. Avg total is the average total direct compensation. Average bonus and average total direct compensation are in U.S. dollars. NA indicates that information is not available.

	CorpRank score	Avg bonus	Avg total
Senior managers
CEOs-President	32.03	3,692,171	10,715,788
Executive VP	20.54	900,000	2,798,333
Managing Director	20.66	1340,000	3,037,501
Vice President	24.08	1,226,864	2,057,013
Middle managers
Director	18.40	562,300	NA
Manager	16.02	97,406	NA
Attorneys-legal asst.	21.51	125,000	NA
Trader	13.06	54,188	NA
Employee	15.39	NA	NA