Survey Methodology
Employee restrictive covenants: counting methodology
The comparison matrix contains 91 filed agreements from 86 distinct SEC filers. Every compiled agreement and every evidence cell remains visible.
Raw agreement counts
Statements such as “N of M agreements include this provision” are unweighted. Each agreement counts once, including multiple agreements filed by the same company.
Filer-weighted market statistics
Prevalence and typed-value distributions give each normalized SEC CIK total weight 1. Fractional results are filer-equivalent voting weight, not a fractional number of companies. If one filer has two compiled agreements, each agreement contributes 0.5; a singleton filer contributes 1.
When agreements from the same filer state different typed values, those values remain separate fractional instances. For example, a two-agreement filer with 12-month and 18-month terms contributes 0.5 to each value. The survey does not blend them into an invented 15-month term.
CIKs are parsed from official SEC EDGAR archive URLs and normalized without leading zeroes. Deferred forms are excluded from both denominators.