Remuneration

Neste's approach to remuneration

Our Remuneration Policy provides a structure that aligns remuneration with the successful delivery of our long-term strategic and sustainability goals to become world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel and a forerunner as a producer of more sustainable raw material solutions for the polymers and chemicals industry, and is based on our four guiding remuneration principles:

• Ensure the execution of Neste’s strategy: Neste aims to chart a clear path forward by executing its strategy and sharing its business objectives.

• Drive performance and value based behavior: Neste aims to drive results by rewarding excellence, development and value based behavior.

• Encourage individual and team accountability: Neste promotes clear targets and a focus on continuous performance improvement. Neste enables this by maintaining an ongoing dialogue with employees and by encouraging employee feedback.

• Be fair and transparent: Neste runs performance and total rewards processes ethically and with integrity, and supports this with clear communication.

Neste’s remuneration concepts such as variable pay programs and performance measures for these programs are developed with these principles in mind. These same principles that are applied to the President and CEO are also applied to other employees, and the Personnel and Remuneration Committee reviews and considers employee pay, conditions and engagement across the broader employee population and reward-related feedback collated on the total employee experience.

Neste Remuneration Policy

Neste Remuneration Report 2023

Remuneration governance

Remuneration-related discussion and decision-making at Neste involves the Shareholders’ Nomination Board, the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, the Board of Directors, and the Board’s Personnel and Remuneration Committee. The Shareholders’ Nomination Board submits a proposal concerning the remuneration payable to the Board of Directors to the AGM. Upon the recommendation of the Personnel and Remuneration Committee, the Board of Directors submits the Remuneration Policy (at least within every 4 years) and Remuneration Report annually to the AGM and decides on the remuneration and remuneration elements of the President and CEO within the confines of the Remuneration Policy. 

The decision-making process, which is outlined in the chart, guarantees that decisions are fair and unbiased. Remuneration is set according to the "grandparent principle" whereby the pay of any individual is subject to the approval of a manager's manager. No individual may decide or participate in decision-making in matters relating to their own remuneration.

Decision making process in remuneration