Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between executive financial compensation and organizational resilience of Deposit Money Banks in Rivers State, Nigeria. The predictor variable is executive financial compensation which was used as a uni-dimensional variable while the criterion variable: organizational resilience has three measures vis-à-vis adaptive capacity, situational awareness and innovation. The study adopted a correlational and cross-sectional research design and uses questionnaire as the research instrument which was distributed to 57 top executives of 19 DMBs operating in Rivers State which comprises of 3 executives from each DMBs.