This document contains three samples that provide guidelines for creating an organization's compensation committee charter.

Sample tasks of the compensation committee include reviewing and evaluating its performance, reviewing and reassessing the adequacy of this charter, making regular reports to the board, forming and delegating authority to subcommittees when appropriate, producing the compensation committee report on executive compensation required to be included in the company’s proxy statement for its annual meeting of stockholders, and adopting or administering these plans on behalf of the board and the company.