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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-05-07

Guardian Pharmacy Services (GRDN)

Fiscal year 2025 executive and director compensation, incentive-plan design, equity activity, and governance — every figure in this brief is traceable to its exact location in the company’s SEC filing — the document, the section, the page, and the table, linked directly.

$996,704
David Morris total, FY2025
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officerhighest-paid officer; CEO Fred Burke: $845,842
CEO (Fred Burke) pay percentile vs peers
CEO-to-median pay ratio
99.08%
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against GRDN
No companies currently name GRDN as a compensation peer in their most recent disclosure.

This is the complete answer, not a partial one — the list is never padded.

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Summary Compensation Table — fiscal year 2025

Named executive officerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension / NQDCAll otherTotal
David Morris$412,000$0$239,997$0$309,000$0$35,707$996,704
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Kendall Forbes412,0000239,9970309,000033,737994,734
Executive Vice President, Sales & Operations
Fred Burke463,500000347,625034,717845,842
President and Chief Executive Officer

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 officerFY2025 totalFY2024 totalFY2023 totalΔ FY20242025
David Morris$996,704$684,317+312,387
Kendall Forbes994,734681,050+313,684
Fred Burke845,842766,103+79,739

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

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Equity transactions since the proxy statement was filed

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

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Grants of plan-based awards — fiscal year 2025

ExecutiveAwardGrant dateThresholdTargetGrantedMaximumGrant-date fair value
Kendall ForbesRSU2025-02-0510,385$239,997
David MorrisRSU2025-02-0510,385239,997
03b

Vehicle mix — grant-date fair value by award type

Named executive officerTime-vested (RSU)Performance-vested (PSU)Options / SARs% performance-vested
Kendall Forbes$239,997$0$00.0%
David Morris239,997000.0%

% performance-vested = PSU grant-date fair value ÷ (RSU + PSU + Options), a computed value with the derivation shown in the register.

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Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
David MorrisRSU10,385$312,485
Kendall ForbesRSU10,385312,485
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Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-05-0553,758,195500,20777899.08%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 yearMeeting dateApproval — company's computation
20262026-05-0599.08%a

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

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.

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Director compensation — fiscal year 2025

DirectorCash feesStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveAll otherTotal
Randall LewisIndependent · Audit (Chair) · Compensation · Nominating and Governance$75,000$99,983$0$174,983
Mary Sue PatchettIndependent · Audit · Compensation · Nominating and Governance (Chair)75,00099,9830174,983
Steve CoslerIndependent · Audit · Compensation (Chair) · Nominating and Governance75,00099,9830174,983
William BindleyNot independent · Board Chair0000
John AckermanNot independent0000
Thomas Salentine JrNot independent0000
David MorrisEmployee director0
Fred BurkeEmployee director0
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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$75,000
Annual equity retainer$100,000
Per board meeting fee$0
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)
Stock ownership guideline$5
09b

Total cost of the board

ComponentFY2025
Cash retainers and fees$225,000
Equity awards (grant-date value)$299,949
All other compensation$0
Total cost of the board$524,949

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

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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.

RankCompanyFYChief executiveSalaryStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveTotal
1Guardian Pharmacy Services2025Fred Burke$463,500$0$0$347,625$845,842

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.

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Source register

Each figure's location is given both for the eye (section · page · table · row · column) and for a script (table/row/column index and exact character span in the filed document). Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

#SupportsDocumentFiledAccessionLocation in document
1Section 01, David MorrisDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 996,704. Filing ↗machine: span 218775–218782
2Section 01, Kendall ForbesDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 994,734. Filing ↗machine: span 225169–225176
3Section 01, Fred BurkeDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Executive Compensation”. As printed: 845,842. Filing ↗machine: span 212359–212366
4Section 03, Kendall Forbes RSUDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 224275–224282
5Section 03, David Morris RSUDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 217881–217888
6Section 08, Randall LewisDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 174,983. Filing ↗machine: span 342105–342112
7Section 08, Mary Sue PatchettDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 174,983. Filing ↗machine: span 343619–343626
8Section 08, Steve CoslerDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 174,983. Filing ↗machine: span 340620–340627
9Section 08, William BindleyDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
10Section 08, John AckermanDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
11Section 08, Thomas Salentine JrDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
12Section 08, David MorrisDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
13Section 08, Fred BurkeDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. Filing ↗
14Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-05-070001193125-26-211924Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 99.08% (votes for as printed: 53,758,195). Filing ↗
15Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed)ComputedcomputedΔ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.machine: formula: Δ = FY(n) − FY(n−1)
16Section 03b vehicle mix (computed)ComputedcomputedRSU / PSU / Options grant-date fair values summed per officer from the grants table; % performance-vested = PSU ÷ (RSU+PSU+Options).machine: formula: sums + PSU ratio
17Section 09b board cost (computed)ComputedcomputedCash 225,000 + equity 299,949 + all other 0 = 524,949, summed across the director compensation table rows.machine: formula: Σ = 524,949
18Guardian Pharmacy Services (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-03-260001193125-26-125070CEO total compensation as printed in Guardian Pharmacy Services's own proxy. As printed: 845,842. Filing ↗machine: span 212359–212366