Compensation for finance executives is looking healthier, with66% of those surveyed by Financial Executives Internationalreporting they got a raise this year, up from 43% in2010.

The average increase in executives' base salary was 3%, vs. 2.1%in 2010, according to FEI's fifth annual compensation survey. CFOsat public companies saw average raises of 4%, as did controllers,while chief accounting officers got 2% raises and treasurers sawincreases of 4.4%.

“Theoretically, the economy is picking up, and a company'ssituation is picking up a little, and compensation is picking up alittle bit,” says Bill Sinnett, director of research atFEI.

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