Get executive compensation data by ticker
Read the Summary Compensation Table from a company's latest proxy statement as JSON: salary, bonus, stock awards, incentives and total pay per executive.
Every year, a company's proxy statement (DEF 14A) includes the Summary Compensation Table: what the CEO, CFO and other named executive officers were paid over the last three fiscal years. /v1/executive-compensation finds the latest proxy and parses the table.
Microsoft's named executive officers
import os
import requests
BASE = "https://secfeedapi.com"
HEADERS = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SECFEED_KEY']}"}
r = requests.get(f"{BASE}/v1/executive-compensation", params={"ticker": "MSFT"}, headers=HEADERS, timeout=120)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
print("proxy:", data["accessionNo"], "|", len(data["executives"]), "rows")
latest = max(e["year"] for e in data["executives"])
for e in sorted((e for e in data["executives"] if e["year"] == latest), key=lambda e: -e["total"]):
print(f"{e['name'][:52]:52} {e['year']} salary ${e['salary']:>11,.0f} stock ${e['stockAwards']:>12,.0f} total ${e['total']:>12,.0f}")Output:
proxy: 0001193125-25-245150 | 13 rows
Satya Nadella Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 2025 salary $ 2,500,000 stock $ 84,245,496 total $ 96,496,790
Amy E. Hood Executive Vice President and Chief Finan 2025 salary $ 1,000,000 stock $ 25,037,360 total $ 29,481,551
Bradford L. Smith Vice Chair and President 2025 salary $ 1,000,000 stock $ 23,734,545 total $ 28,267,295
Judson B. Althoff Executive Vice President and CEO M 2025 salary $ 993,333 stock $ 23,708,619 total $ 28,198,734
Takeshi Numoto Executive Vice President and Chief Ma 2025 salary $ 800,000 stock $ 9,005,380 total $ 11,876,630The table has 13 rows because it covers up to three fiscal years per executive. The example keeps the latest year and sorts by total.
Fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
name | Executive name and title as printed |
year | Fiscal year |
salary, bonus | Cash pay |
stockAwards | Grant date fair value of stock awards |
nonEquityIncentive | Cash incentive plan pay |
allOther | Perquisites and other compensation |
total | Total as reported in the table |
Pass accessionNo to parse a specific older proxy instead of the latest one.
Related governance data
/v1/pay-vs-performance: compensation actually paid versus total shareholder return/v1/directors: director compensation and tenure/v1/audit-fees: fees paid to the auditor, see the audit fees tutorial
Ideas
- CEO pay versus peers in one industry
- Year over year change in stock awards
- The share of pay that is equity based, per company