A deferred compensation agreement is an agreement between a company and an employee that withholds paying some of the employee's salary. A nonqualified deferred compensation plan can reduce your taxable income, but there are risks to consider.This deferred compensation agreement template has 3 pages and is a MS Word file type listed under our human resources documents. A deferred compensation plan is any plan that withholds a portion of an employee's pay until the end of the deferral period. Considering a deferred compensation plan? In this post, we discuss some of the tax and financial strategies when setting up a NQDC plan.