Say-on-payis an advisory shareholder vote on the executive compensation disclosed in a company’s annual proxy. The FAQ and glossarydefine it the same way: it is required of most U.S. public companies under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, it is non-binding, and companies must disclose the result. This page is the 2026 season hub for that vote — not a market-wide ranking.
What the 2026 vote is
During proxy season, shareholders vote on directors, auditors, and usually the named-executive pay package from the latest proxy. The pay vote is advisory: the board can ignore it. A result under 50% of votes cast is a public failure. Weak support short of a fail still shows up in later engagement and board elections.
The SEC says most public companies hold an advisory say-on-pay vote on executive compensation, plus a separate frequency vote at least every six years.
Source: SEC Investor Bulletin, Say-on-Pay and Golden Parachute Votes. Same definition as rentseek’s FAQ and glossary.
The 2026 result we can cite: Adobe at 50.65%
The filing-backed 2026 say-on-pay result rentseek currently publishes is Adobe (ADBE). Shareholders voted at the April 15, 2026 annual meeting on the fiscal 2025 packages in Adobe’s DEF 14A, including CEO Shantanu Narayen’s $51.2 million reported total.
50.65% — Adobe’s 2026 advisory say-on-pay approval rate, calculated as 148,837,167 votes For divided by 293,831,053 total votes cast (For + Against).
Source: Adobe Inc. Form 8-K, Item 5.07 (accession 0000796343-26-000101), filed 2026-04-21. Ballot context: Adobe Inc. DEF 14A filed 2026-02-27.
How the math works.Adobe’s 8-K tabulation shows 148,837,167 For, 144,993,886 Against, 687,689 abstentions, and 41,927,404 broker non-votes. Adobe’s proxy standard for the advisory pay proposal is a majority of votes cast, excluding abstentions. The approval rate is 148,837,167 ÷ (148,837,167 + 144,993,886) = 50.65%. That is a pass, not a fail, by about 3.84 million shares. The full three-year trajectory is in Adobe’s 2026 say-on-pay article.
What this page is not
It is not a 2026 season ranking. A ranked table needs many issuers with stored Form 8-K Item 5.07 tallies: company, ticker, support percentage, the pay package on the ballot, and an as-of date. rentseek’s ingestion pipeline can parse those 8-K vote blocks, and the warehouse schema can store them. This site does not currently publish a multi-issuer 2026 vote table from those filings.
Because we cannot list that table here, we do not report a 2026 market-wide average, median, or failure count. Those statistics would be invented unless they come from a cited set of SEC filings. The honest coverage statement is n=1 published 2026 result: Adobe, 50.65%, 8-K Item 5.07, as of the April 21, 2026 filing.
How a say-on-pay result gets into an 8-K
The proxy (usually a DEF 14A) puts the advisory pay proposal on the ballot and shows the Summary Compensation Table package shareholders are voting on. After the annual meeting, the company files a Form 8-K under Item 5.07 (“Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders”) with the For, Against, Abstain, and broker non-vote counts. That 8-K is the primary source for the percentage. Accession numbers identify the exact filing.
For Adobe, the 2026 vote accession is 0000796343-26-000101. The package on the ballot is the fiscal 2025 executive compensation in the February 27, 2026 proxy. If more issuers later have stored 8-K Item 5.07 rows, a /rankings/say-on-pay-2026 table can rank them by support. Until then, this explainer is the crawlable 2026 season URL.
Frequently asked questions
What is say-on-pay?
Say-on-pay is an advisory shareholder vote, required of most US public companies under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, on whether to approve the executive compensation disclosed in the company's annual proxy statement. It is non-binding — the board can ignore the result — but companies must disclose the outcome. The same definition appears in rentseek's FAQ and glossary.
What was Adobe's 2026 say-on-pay result?
Adobe's 2026 advisory vote passed at 50.65%: 148,837,167 votes For divided by 293,831,053 votes cast (For + Against), from Adobe's Form 8-K Item 5.07 filed 2026-04-21 (accession 0000796343-26-000101). The vote was on fiscal 2025 executive compensation, including the CEO's $51.2 million reported package in the February 27, 2026 proxy.
What is the 2026 say-on-pay season average?
rentseek does not publish a 2026 market-wide average, median, or failure count. Those figures require a multi-issuer set of stored Form 8-K Item 5.07 votes. The filing-backed 2026 result we currently publish is Adobe at 50.65%.
Where do say-on-pay results come from?
The proxy puts the advisory pay proposal on the ballot. After the annual meeting, the company files a Form 8-K under Item 5.07 with the For, Against, Abstain, and broker non-vote counts. That 8-K accession is the primary source for the support percentage.
See also: Adobe’s 2026 say-on-pay near-pass, the live Adobe compensation page, what proxy season is, and the say-on-pay glossary entry.