CEO Pay Watch: Mark DeYoung, Alliant Techsystems Inc.

Total compensation: $3,918,159 for the year ended March 31.

Salary: $1,000,000

Non-equity incentive pay: $1,500,000

Other compensation: $218,531

Value realized on vesting shares: $1,199,628

New stock options: 52,631

Total fiscal 2013 return to shareholders: 47.2 percent

Note: DeYoung's overall compensation increased 30 percent last year, mainly from previously issued stock awards (worth $1.2 million) that vested during the year. No stock awards vested in the previous year. De­Young got a small increase in his base salary plus the maximum bonus for achieving annual goals, but it was $384,600 less than the previous year.

For fiscal 2014 Alliant's compensation committee awarded DeYoung a 2.5 percent increase to his annual salary.

Alliant Techsystems also recorded an expense of $3,039,889 for stock awards and $759,992 for option awards that were part of DeYoung's long-term equity incentive compensation.

In October 2011 the company moved its corporate headquarters from Eden Prairie to Arlington, Va. Alliant made the move to be closer to its major customer, the U.S. Department of Defense.

The company said then that the move would only affect about a dozen of its senior management. The company has since announced several layoffs to its global workforce, which was approximately 15,000 in March of 2011 and is currently about 14,000. Approximately 2,400 of Alliant's employees are still in Minnesota.

Patrick Kennedy