Incentive Compensation Plans (Notes)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2011

Employee Service Share-based Compensation, Aggregate Disclosures [Abstract]

We issue stock-based compensation and cash awards to our employees under a plan established by the Compensation and Leadership Talent Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Compensation Committee”) and approved by our shareholders.

We issued the following stock-based awards under the 2009 Performance Incentive Plan (the “2009 PIP”) during the nine months ended September 30, 2011.



	Awards	Weighted-average grant-date fair value (per award)
Stock options	0.8	$	4.63
Stock-settled awards	0.8	$	12.13
Performance-based awards	1.8	$	11.42
Total stock-based compensation awards	3.4

During the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Compensation Committee granted performance cash awards under the 2009 PIP with a total target value of $71.1. Of this amount, awards with a total target value of $31.8 will be settled in shares upon vesting. The number of shares to be settled on the vesting date will be calculated as the cash value adjusted for performance divided by our stock price on the vesting date. Additionally, during the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Compensation Committee granted cash awards under the Interpublic Restricted Cash Plan with a total target value of $3.2. Cash awards will be amortized over the vesting period, typically three years.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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