Christopher Posner

2021

In 2021, Christopher Posner earned a total compensation of $9.9M as President and Chief Executive Officer at Cara Therapeutics.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$268,000
Option Awards$6,885,579
Salary$116,167
Stock Awards$2,583,896
Other$47,734
Total$9,901,376

Posner received $6.9M in option awards, accounting for 70% of the total pay in 2021.

Posner also received $268K in bonus, $116.2K in salary, $2.6M in stock awards and $47.7K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, Christopher Posner's compensation ranked 1,054th out of 12,415 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Posner earned more than 91.5% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,054
out of 12,415
92nd
Division
Manufacturing
358
out of 5,505
94th
Major group
Chemicals And Allied Products
125
out of 2,375
95th
Industry group
Drugs
106
out of 2,096
95th
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
72
out of 1,546
95th

Pay ratio

Christopher Posner's Pay$9,901,376
Median Employee's Pay$192,240
Pay Ratio

52

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of Christopher Posner was $9,901,376.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Cara Therapeutics was $192,240.

The ratio of Christopher Posner's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 52 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 22, 2022.

Posner's colleagues

We found five more compensation records of executives who worked with Christopher Posner at Cara Therapeutics in 2021.

2021

Derek Chalmers

Cara Therapeutics

Chief Executive Officer

2021

Frédérique Menzaghi

Cara Therapeutics

Chief Scientific Officer

2021

Joana Goncalves

Cara Therapeutics

Chief Medical Officer

2021

Scott Terrillion

Cara Therapeutics

General Counsel

2021

Thomas Reilly

Cara Therapeutics

Chief Financial Officer

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