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Corrections are the most useful thing you can send us. Every figure on this site is traceable to a filing, which means every error is checkable.
Fair500 is a small independent project, so replies are not instant, but corrections are read and acted on.
Email: contact@fair500.com
We normally reply within a few days. There is no phone line and no mailing address for enquiries.
This is the correspondence we most want. The figures here are compiled from thousands of pages of filings and verified in three passes, but errors survive that process, and a number that contradicts its own source is the one kind of problem that is unambiguously worth fixing.
To make a correction actionable, please include:
That last item matters. We correct against primary sources only, so a report we can trace to a specific filing can be resolved the same day, while one that cannot usually stalls. If the disagreement is with a third-party site rather than a filing, it is worth checking our methodology first. Several of our figures deliberately differ from the commonly quoted ones, particularly the pay ratio, which we recompute on a three-year average of CEO compensation rather than the single year companies disclose.
The methodology page covers the sources, the formulas, the verification process, and four significant limitations of the underlying disclosure rule. If something there is unclear or appears to be wrong, we would like to hear about it. The reasoning is meant to be checkable, and a methodology nobody can interrogate is not much better than no methodology.
Every figure attributed to your company comes from your own SEC filings, and the same method is applied to all 494 companies on the site. We are glad to correct any figure that misreports what your filings say, and the process above is the fastest route to that.
We do not remove or adjust accurate figures. If you believe an accurate number is nonetheless misleading, because your median employee population is largely outside the United States, for instance, or is substantially part-time, that is a fair point, one we make ourselves in the analysis and in the methodology's limitations, and we are happy to consider adding context.
Journalists, researchers and educators are welcome to use the compiled figures. If you need a cut of the data that the site does not expose, or want to confirm how a particular number was derived before publishing it, get in touch and we will help where we can. For anything where a specific company's figure carries weight in your argument, we would encourage citing the original filing rather than us.