Edward S. Knight

2018

In 2018, Edward S. Knight earned a total compensation of $3.5M as EVP and Global Chief Legal and Policy Officer at Nasdaq, a 22% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,410,325
Salary$535,577
Stock Awards$1,490,007
Other$16,500
Total$3,452,409

Knight received $1.5M in stock awards, accounting for 43% of the total pay in 2018.

Knight also received $1.4M in non-equity incentive plan, $535.6K in salary and $16.5K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2018, Edward S. Knight's compensation ranked 3,304th out of 14,244 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Knight earned more than 76.8% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
3,304
out of 14,244
77th
Division
Finance, Insurance, And Real Estate
604
out of 2,986
80th
Major group
Security And Commodity Brokers, Dealers, Exchanges, And Services
102
out of 243
58th

Pay ratio

Edward S. Knight's Pay$3,452,409
Median Employee's Pay$111,155
Pay Ratio

31

to 1

In 2018, the annual total compensation of Edward S. Knight was $3,452,409.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Nasdaq was $111,155.

The ratio of Edward S. Knight's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 31 to one.

Source: SEC filing on March 12, 2019.

Knight's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with Edward S. Knight at Nasdaq in 2018.

2018

Adena Friedman

Nasdaq

Chief Executive Officer

2018

Bradley Peterson

Nasdaq

EVP and Chief Information Officer

2018

Michael Ptasznik

Nasdaq

Chief Financial Officer

2018

Thomas Wittman

Nasdaq

EVP, Global Trading and Market Services

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