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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-04-17
Hinge Health (HNGE)
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.
$45,812,139
Daniel Perez total, FY2025
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CEO pay percentile vs peers
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Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against HNGE
No companies currently name HNGE 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 officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension / NQDC | All other | Total |
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| Daniel Perez | $500,000 | $0 | $45,305,139 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $7,000 | $45,812,139 |
| Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder, and Director |
| Jim Pursley | 500,000 | 0 | 3,167,813 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23,993 | 3,691,806 |
| President |
| James Budge | 416,667 | 0 | 3,004,313 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27,985 | 3,448,965 |
| Chief Financial 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 officer | FY2025 total | FY2024 total | FY2023 total | Δ FY2024→2025 |
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| Daniel Perez | $45,812,139 | — | — | — |
| Jim Pursley | 3,691,806 | — | — | — |
| James Budge | 3,448,965 | — | — | — |
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
| Executive | Award | Grant date | Threshold | Target | Granted | Maximum | Grant-date fair value |
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| James Budge | RSU | — | — | — | 12,500 | — | $353,250 |
| James Budge | RSU | — | — | — | 91,875 | — | — |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | — | — | — | 96,875 | — | — |
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Vehicle mix — grant-date fair value by award type
| Named executive officer | Time-vested (RSU) | Performance-vested (PSU) | Options / SARs | % performance-vested |
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| James Budge | $353,250 | $0 | $0 | 0.0% |
% 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
| Executive | Award | Shares unvested | Exercise price | Market value unvested |
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| Daniel Perez | PSU | 1,888,501 | — | $87,720,871 |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | 87,794 | — | 4,078,031 |
| Daniel Perez | PSU | 944,250 | — | 43,860,413 |
| James Budge | RSU | 42,188 | — | 1,959,633 |
| James Budge | RSU | 157,813 | — | 7,330,414 |
| James Budge | RSU | 83,262 | — | 3,867,520 |
| James Budge | RSU | 5,625 | — | 261,281 |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | 4,063 | — | 188,726 |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | 42,188 | — | 1,959,633 |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | 28,125 | — | 1,306,406 |
| Jim Pursley | RSU | 5,625 | — | 261,281 |
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Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis
| CEO STI target (% of salary) | — |
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| CEO LTI target (% of salary) | — |
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| Independent consultant | Compensia |
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| Clawback policy | — |
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| Anti-hedging | — |
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| Anti-pledging | — |
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CEO pay ratio
| Ratio (CEO : median employee) | — |
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| CEO total compensation | — |
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| Median employee compensation | — |
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Board fee structure and ownership guideline
| Annual cash retainer | $40,000 |
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| Annual equity retainer | $200,000 |
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| Per board meeting fee | — |
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| Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov) | 20,000 / 15,000 / 10,000 |
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| Stock ownership guideline | — |
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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.
| Rank | Company | FY | Chief executive | Salary | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Total |
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| 1 | Hinge Health | 2025 | Daniel Perez | $500,000 | $45,305,139 | $0 | $0 | $45,812,139 |
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.
| # | Supports | Document | Filed | Accession | Location in document |
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| 1 | Section 01, Daniel Perez | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 21. As printed: 45,812,139. Filing ↗machine: span 296115–296125 |
| 2 | Section 01, Jim Pursley | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 21. As printed: 3,691,806. Filing ↗machine: span 308944–308953 |
| 3 | Section 01, James Budge | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 21. As printed: 3,448,965. Filing ↗machine: span 302500–302509 |
| 4 | Section 03, James Budge RSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 315964–315972 |
| 5 | Section 03, James Budge RSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 320699–320705 |
| 6 | Section 03, Jim Pursley RSU | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | Section “Executive Compensation” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 320741–320747 |
| 7 | Section 07, pay ratio | 10-K | 2026-03-03 | 0001628280-26-013808 | Section “CEO Pay Ratio”. As printed: —. Filing ↗ |
| 8 | Section 03b vehicle mix (computed) | Computed | — | computed | RSU / PSU / Options grant-date fair values summed per officer from the grants table; % performance-vested = PSU ÷ (RSU+PSU+Options).machine: formula: sums + PSU ratio |
| 9 | Hinge Health (subject), Section 10b CEO total | DEF 14A | 2026-04-17 | 0001628280-26-025602 | CEO total compensation as printed in Hinge Health's own proxy. As printed: 45,812,139. Filing ↗machine: span 296115–296125 |