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Citi Trends (CTRN): executive pay, fiscal 2025

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CEO total pay$1,912,312CEO Kenneth Seipel · source

Say-on-pay support99.12%Latest vote · source

CEO vs. named peers25th pct.Of 9 peer CEOs

CEO pay ratio78:1To the median employee · source

CEO pay, last three years

$6,056,047FY2024
$1,912,312FY2025

CEO total pay was $1,912,312 in fiscal 2025, down from $6,056,047 in fiscal 2024.

FY2025: salary $788,736 · bonus $0 · stock awards $0 · option awards $0

Executives and directors

Kenneth Seipel · CEO Kyle Koenig · Executive Heather Plutino · CFO Cara Robinson · Independent Director Chaoyang (Charles) Liu · Independent Director David A. Heath · Lead Independent Director Margaret L. Jenkins · Independent Director Michael S. Kvitko · Independent Director Pamela Edwards · Independent Director Wesley Calvert · Independent Director

Frequently asked questions

Who was the highest-paid executive at Citi Trends Inc in fiscal 2025?

As disclosed, Kenneth Seipel (Chairman and Chief Executive Officer) was the highest-paid executive at Citi Trends Inc in fiscal 2025, with total compensation of $1,912,312.

How does Citi Trends Inc's chief executive pay compare to its disclosed peer group?

As disclosed, Kenneth Seipel's total compensation ranked at the 25th percentile of Citi Trends Inc's disclosed peer group.

What is Citi Trends Inc's CEO-to-median employee pay ratio?

As disclosed, Citi Trends Inc's CEO-to-median employee pay ratio was 78:1.

How did shareholders vote on Citi Trends Inc's executive compensation?

As disclosed, 99.12% of shareholders supported Citi Trends Inc's executive compensation in the latest say-on-pay vote.

How much does Citi Trends Inc spend in total on board compensation for fiscal 2025?

As disclosed, Citi Trends Inc reported total board compensation of $584,140 for fiscal 2025.

Answers are drawn only from the figures disclosed in this brief and cited to their location in the source filing. Where a figure required for an answer is not disclosed, that is stated rather than estimated.

Full detail

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Summary compensation table

Named executive officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension / NQDC	All other	Total
Kenneth Seipel	$788,736	$0	$0	$0	$1,120,000	$0	$3,576	$1,912,312
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Lisa Powell	492,595	—	631,064	—	350,000	—	13,423	1,487,082
Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising Officer
Heather Plutino	488,337	0	631,064	0	350,000	0	11,742	1,481,143
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Katrina George	313,875	—	361,103	—	175,000	—	3,303	853,281
Vice President, Human Resources
Kyle Koenig	295,579	0	361,103	0	175,000	0	5,927	837,609
Vice President, Stores & Real Estate

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Named executive officer	FY2025 total	FY2024 total	FY2023 total	Δ FY2024→2025
Kenneth Seipel	$1,912,312	$6,056,047	—	↓ −4,143,735
Lisa Powell	1,487,082	783,905	817,492	↑ +703,177
Heather Plutino	1,481,143	761,138	792,965	↑ +720,005
Katrina George	853,281	423,660	—	↑ +429,621
Kyle Koenig	837,609	354,208	—	↑ +483,401

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

Our compensation program is designed to align the interests of management and stockholders and to link Company performance with executive pay, such that the Company’s achievement of challenging financial goals results in payment of annual incentives to our executive officers.

CEO STI target (% of salary)	—
CEO LTI target (% of salary)	—
Independent consultant	—
Clawback policy	true
Anti-hedging	—
Anti-pledging	—

Equity grants and outstanding awards

No plan-based awards are on file for this fiscal year.

Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

Executive	Award	Shares unvested	Exercise price	Market value unvested
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	3,639	—	$94,250
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	3,639	—	94,250
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	3,639	—	94,250
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	3,639	—	94,250
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	3,639	—	94,250
Kyle Koenig	RSU	4,752	—	240,736
Heather Plutino	RSU	19,905	—	1,008,387
Kenneth Seipel	RSU	80,000	—	2,072,000
Kenneth Seipel	PSU	321,502	—	8,326,902

Director compensation

Director	Cash fees	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	All other	Total
Margaret L. JenkinsIndependent · Nominating/Governance · Audit · Finance	$77,050	$65,248	$0	—	$0	$142,298
Cara RobinsonIndependent · Compensation · Nominating/Governance · Audit	73,750	65,248	0	—	0	138,998
Chaoyang (Charles) LiuIndependent · Audit · Finance · Compensation	35,700	65,248	0	—	0	100,948
Michael S. KvitkoIndependent · Finance · Nominating/Governance · Compensation	35,700	65,248	0	—	0	100,948
David A. HeathIndependent · Compensation · Nominating/Governance	35,700	65,248	0	—	0	100,948
Pamela EdwardsIndependent · Audit	0	0	0	—	0	0
Wesley CalvertIndependent · Finance	0	0	0	—	0	0
Kenneth D. SeipelEmployee director · Board Chair · Finance · Corporate Social Responsibility (Chair)	—	—	—	—	—	0

Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer	$84,000
Annual equity retainer	$76,750
Per board meeting fee	—
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)	12,000 / 8,000 / 8,000
Stock ownership guideline	$252,000

Total cost of the board

Component	FY2025
Cash retainers and fees	$257,900
Equity awards (grant-date value)	$326,240
All other compensation	$0
Total cost of the board	$584,140

Computed as the sum of the director compensation table rows above; inputs and formula shown in the register.

Peer group, and who names Citi Trends as a peer

Companies that benchmark against CTRN

4 companies name CTRN as a compensation peer

Each company listed discloses CTRN in its own benchmarking peer group, as disclosed in each company's most recent proxy statement within the last two proxy seasons. Two companies are therefore absent by design: one that named CTRN in an earlier year and no longer does, and one whose own most recent disclosure is older than the last two seasons.

Disclosed peer group — fiscal year 2025

The compensation peer group as the company disclosed it in its own proxy — the reference set behind the percentile above.

BON Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.CATO The Cato CorporationBKE The Buckle Inc.SCVL Shoe Carnival, Inc.ZUMZ Zumiez, Inc.TLYS Tilly's, Inc.HIBB Hibbett, Inc.DEST Destination XL Group, Inc.FIVE Five Below, Inc.

Peer reciprocity

The companies Citi Trends Inc names as compensation peers that name it back in their own disclosed peer groups.

The Cato Corporation (CATO)²⁶Tilly's, Inc. (TLYS)²⁷

Chief executive pay against the peer group

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company’s own proxy statement.

Rank	Company	FY	Chief executive	Salary	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Total
1	The Buckle Inc.	2025	Dennis Nelson	$1,300,000	$5,713,200	$0	$0	$11,706,282
2	Five Below, Inc.	2025	Winnie Park	1,100,000	6,792,215	0	2,750,000	10,814,084
3	Tilly's, Inc.	2025	Nathan Smith	461,538	0	2,251,629	0	3,253,328
4	Citi Trends Inc	2025	Kenneth Seipel	788,736	0	0	1,120,000	1,912,312
5	Zumiez, Inc.	2025	Richard Brooks	735,000	0	0	1,008,089	1,749,159
6	The Cato Corporation	2025	John Cato	1,484,832	0	0	0	1,486,624
—	Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.	—	—	—	—	—	—	not in coverage universe
—	Shoe Carnival, Inc.	—	—	—	—	—	—	not in coverage universe
—	Hibbett, Inc.	—	—	—	—	—	—	not in coverage universe
—	Destination XL Group, Inc.	—	—	—	—	—	—	not in coverage universe

Each peer’s compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer’s figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.

Incentive design against the same peers

Company	Annual incentive payout	Long-term vehicle mix	PSU measures include TSR	Compensation consultant
Citi Trends Inc	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	Mercer
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed
Destination XL Group, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed
Five Below, Inc.	not disclosed	PSU 60 · RSU 40	No	Meridian
Hibbett, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed
Shoe Carnival, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed
The Buckle Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed
The Cato Corporation	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	Aon Hewitt
Tilly's, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	Mercer
Zumiez, Inc.	not disclosed	not disclosed	not disclosed	Meridian Compensation Partners

Read from each company’s Compensation Discussion and Analysis: annual incentive payout as a percentage of target, the disclosed long-term vehicle mix, whether performance-share measures include a total shareholder return component, and the retained compensation consultant. “Not disclosed” appears only where the company’s filing does not state the item.

Say-on-pay history and pay ratio

Meeting year	Meeting date	For	Against	Abstain	Support	Outcome
2026	2026-06-10	6,652,352	59,072	5,695	99.12%	Passed
2025	2025-06-09	5,346,663	562,829	842	90.48%	Passed
2024	2024-06-21	6,526,017	183,624	512	97.26%	Passed
2023	2023-06-09	6,177,258	241,889	1,164	96.23%	Passed
2022	2022-06-01	6,348,879	116,164	7,675	98.2%	Passed
2021	2021-06-04	7,321,594	80,321	11,244	98.91%	Passed

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year’s compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company’s computation

Meeting year	Meeting date	Approval — company’s computation
2026	2026-06-10	99.12%^a
2025	2025-06-09	90.48%^b
2024	2024-06-21	97.26%^c

a. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 1 (election of directors), Proposal 2 ("say-on-pay") or Proposal 3 (ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP).”.

b. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 1 (election of directors), Proposal 2 ("say-on-pay"), Proposal 3 (approval of an amendment to the 2021 Incentive Plan) or Proposal 4 (ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP).”.

c. Approved under the standard stated in the filing — “Abstentions and broker non-votes will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 1 (election of directors), Proposal 2 ("say-on-pay"), Proposal 3 (approval of an amendment to the 2021 Incentive Plan) or Proposal 4 (ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP).”.

Approval percentages are the company’s own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

CEO pay ratio

Ratio (CEO : median employee)	78 : 1
CEO total compensation	$1,912,312
Median employee compensation	$24,523

Insider trades since the proxy

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

Sources (27 citations)

Each figure is listed with the filing it comes from, where it appears in that filing, and the value as printed. Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

Section 01, Kenneth Seipel. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,912,312. View filing ↗
Section 01, Lisa Powell. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,487,082. View filing ↗
Section 01, Heather Plutino. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 1,481,143. View filing ↗
Section 01, Katrina George. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 853,281. View filing ↗
Section 01, Kyle Koenig. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 837,609. View filing ↗
Section 07, pay ratio. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. Section “CEO Pay Ratio”. As printed: 78 : 1. View filing ↗
Section 08, Margaret L. Jenkins. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 142,298. View filing ↗
Section 08, Cara Robinson. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 138,998. View filing ↗
Section 08, Chaoyang (Charles) Liu. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 100,948. View filing ↗
Section 08, Michael S. Kvitko. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 100,948. View filing ↗
Section 08, David A. Heath. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 100,948. View filing ↗
Section 08, Pamela Edwards. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. View filing ↗
Section 08, Wesley Calvert. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. View filing ↗
Section 08, Kenneth D. Seipel. DEF 14A, filed 2025-04-25. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. View filing ↗
Section 06, 2026 vote. Form 8-K, filed 2026-06-12. Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.12% (votes for as printed: 6,652,352). View filing ↗
Section 06, 2025 vote. Form 8-K, filed 2025-06-09. Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 90.48% (votes for as printed: 5,346,663). View filing ↗
Section 06, 2024 vote. Form 8-K, filed 2024-06-21. Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 97.26% (votes for as printed: 6,526,017). View filing ↗
Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed). Computed. Δ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.
Section 09b board cost (computed). Computed. Cash 257,900 + equity 326,240 + all other 0 = 584,140, summed across the director compensation table rows.
The Buckle Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-22. CEO total compensation as printed in The Buckle Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 11,706,282. View filing ↗
Five Below, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. CEO total compensation as printed in Five Below, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 10,814,084. View filing ↗
Tilly's, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-20. CEO total compensation as printed in Tilly's, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 3,253,328. View filing ↗
Citi Trends Inc (subject), Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-01. CEO total compensation as printed in Citi Trends Inc's own proxy. As printed: 1,912,312. View filing ↗
Zumiez, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. CEO total compensation as printed in Zumiez, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 1,749,159. View filing ↗
The Cato Corporation, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-10. CEO total compensation as printed in The Cato Corporation's own proxy. As printed: 1,486,624. View filing ↗
Section 10a, The Cato Corporation reciprocity. DEF 14A. The Cato Corporation names Citi Trends Inc in its own disclosed peer group (read from its most recent proxy). View filing ↗
Section 10a, Tilly's, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Tilly's, Inc. names Citi Trends Inc in its own disclosed peer group (read from its most recent proxy). View filing ↗