Total compensation expense for key management personnel, and the composition thereof, is as follows:

Our Executive Leadership Team members are members of our Pension Plan for Management and Professional Employees of TELUS Corporation and certain other non-registered, non-contributory supplementary defined benefit pension plans.

For the year ended December 31, 2018, share-based compensation expense is net of $NIL (2017 – $4) of the effects of derivatives used to manage share-based compensation costs (Note 14(b)).

As disclosed in Note 14, we made initial awards of share-based compensation in 2018 and 2017, including, as set out in the following table, to our key management personnel. As most of these awards are cliff-vesting or graded-vesting and have multi-year requisite service periods, the related expense will be recognized rateably over a period of years and thus only a portion of the 2018 and 2017 initial awards are included in the amounts in the table above.


	2018					2017
	Number of					Number of
Year ended December 31	restricted	Notional		Grant-date		restricted	Notional		Grant-date
($ in millions)	stock units	value 1		fair value 1		stock units	value 1		fair value 1
Awarded in period	608,849	$	28	$	36	686,595	$	30	$	30

Notional value is determined by multiplying the Common Share price at the time of award by the number of units awarded. The grant-date fair value differs from the notional value because the fair values of some awards have been determined using a Monte Carlo simulation (see Note 14(b)).

The liability amounts accrued for share-based compensation awards to key management personnel are as follows:

Our Directors’ Deferred Share Unit Plan provides that, in addition to his or her annual equity grant of deferred share units, a director may elect to receive his or her annual retainer and meeting fees in deferred share units, Common Shares or cash. Deferred share units entitle directors to a specified number of, or a cash payment based on the value of, our Common Shares. Deferred share units are paid out when a director ceases to be a director, for any reason, at a time elected by the director in accordance with the Directors’ Deferred Share Unit Plan; during the year ended December 31, 2018, $6 (2017 – $14) was paid out.

Years ended December 31 (millions)

Short-term benefits

Post-employment pension 1 and other benefits

Share-based compensation 2