Market-Competitive Total Rewards

Our goal is to attract, motivate, and retain the best and the brightest employees who have an entrepreneurial spirit and can execute smartly against plan. To ensure a competitive total rewards package, we regularly benchmark our cash compensation, stock compensation, and employee benefit levels against similar companies in our industry and in the locations in which we operate.

The two principal concepts behind our compensation programs are:

Pay for Performance

We hire driven, fast-moving professionals who know how to build and manage a business with integrity and a commitment to excellence. Our employees focus on the most critical needs of our customers and demonstrate the initiative and discipline to serve them well.

Because people of this caliber expect to be rewarded commensurately, we correlate pay increases with individual performance and achievements so that our top performers receive above-average pay increases. Individual performance is also a key factor in determining the size of stock grants. And people in positions that are eligible for incentive compensation can drive their rewards higher by exceeding their performance targets.

Employee Stock Ownership

Besides the usual compensation components that many companies provide, InfoSpace has long embraced the worth and usefulness of employee stock equity programs.

Both as part of our new-hire package and during their employment here, employees receive opportunities to become a partial owner of the company through our equity programs. We believe that entrusting employees with stock ownership increases their motivation to succeed and makes them more likely to stick around to see the fruits of their efforts.