Equilar Launches OfficerInsight™, an Innovative Executive Compensation Survey

Business Wire, August 19, 2008

New Survey Solution Addresses the Need for High-Quality Executive Compensation Data Beyond the Top Five

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Equilar, the market leader for executive compensation benchmarking solutions, today announced the release of OfficerInsight[TM], an innovative new online service that integrates all available public data on executive pay with proprietary compensation survey information provided by America's leading corporations. With OfficerInsight[TM], Equilar clients will be able to gain valuable insights into compensation trends for C-level executives, Section 16 officers, and key functional and business unit heads at leading U.S. companies. Much of this information comes directly from participating companies themselves through Equilar's exclusive survey of executive compensation practices and policies, conducted in early 2008.

As the newest addition to Equilar's award-winning suite of online tools, OfficerInsight[TM] is the first pure on-demand executive compensation survey. Offering easy online access, customized job matching capabilities, pre-populated data from public filings, and unprecedented flexibility and transparency in defining methodologies, OfficerInsight[TM] promises to greatly improve the end-user experience with the most accurate and up-to-date data.

"With over 150 survey participants, and 100 of those participants in the Fortune 250, this product is already a great success," says Robert Neivert, Equilar's Vice President of Products and Marketing. "Our strong participation rates in year one clearly demonstrate the immediate need for high-quality, continuously updated, and real-time executive pay data that is flexible enough to cover the complex hybrid roles that many executives hold today." He adds, "It is products like this that have enabled Equilar to build successful relationships with 19 of top 20 compensation consultants and to act as a trusted resource for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and many others."

To learn more about OfficerInsight, please call 1-877-441-6090 or visit the OfficerInsight portion of our website.

About Equilar, Inc.

Equilar, a NASDAQ strategic alliance partner, is the market leader for benchmarking executive and director compensation. Equilar enables corporations, consulting firms, law firms, investors, individual executives, and members of the media to accurately compare pay packages across public companies using SEC data. Equilar's products include an award-winning suite of online tools for analyzing compensation and corporate governance trends and independent custom research services. Equilar's research is frequently featured in Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, CNBC, The Financial Times, Fortune, The New York Times, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, and other leading media publications. Equilar is based in Redwood Shores, CA and was recently recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest-growing businesses in America.