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Compensation Brief
Fiscal year 2025 · Filings through 2026-06-17

Playboy (PLBY)

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.

$3,688,107
Ben Kohn total, FY2025
CEO pay percentile vs peers
CEO-to-median pay ratio
89.24%
Say-on-pay support, latest vote
Companies that benchmark against PLBY
No companies currently name PLBY 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
Ben Kohn$850,720$918,000$1,908,229$0$0$0$11,158$3,688,107
Chief Executive Officer & President
Chris Riley400,720345,600667,88000012,8501,427,050
General Counsel and Secretary
Marc Crossman400,720345,600667,88000010,6191,424,819
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating 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
Ben Kohn$3,688,107
Chris Riley1,427,050
Marc Crossman1,424,819

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

02

Equity transactions since the proxy statement was filed

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

03

Grants of plan-based awards — fiscal year 2025

ExecutiveAwardGrant dateThresholdTargetGrantedMaximumGrant-date fair value
Chris RileyRSU2025-05-02274,187$293,380
Chris RileyRSU2025-05-02350,000374,500
Marc CrossmanRSU2025-05-02350,000374,500
Marc CrossmanRSU2025-05-02274,187293,380
Ben KohnRSU2025-05-021,000,0001,070,000
Ben KohnRSU2025-05-02783,392838,229
03b

Vehicle mix — grant-date fair value by award type

Named executive officerTime-vested (RSU)Performance-vested (PSU)Options / SARs% performance-vested
Chris Riley$667,880$0$00.0%
Marc Crossman667,880000.0%
Ben Kohn1,908,229000.0%

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

04

Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
Marc CrossmanRSU350,000$658,000
Ben KohnRSU1,000,0001,880,000
Ben KohnRSU783,3921,472,777
Chris RileyRSU350,000658,000
Marc CrossmanRSU274,187515,472
Chris RileyRSU274,187515,472
Marc CrossmanRSU133,334250,668
Ben KohnRSU45,41485,378
Chris RileyRSU15,89529,883
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Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

CEO STI target (% of salary)
CEO LTI target (% of salary)
Independent consultantExequity LLP
Clawback policytrue
Anti-hedgingtrue
Anti-pledgingtrue
06

Say-on-pay — recent advisory votes

Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-06-1665,300,8907,874,37852,82589.24%Passed
20252025-06-1653,674,6469,526,194266,69984.93%Passed
20242024-06-1326,479,4824,026,453300,21386.8%Passed
20232023-06-1528,143,3346,859,244390,97380.4%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
20262026-06-1689.24%a
20252025-06-1684.93%b
20242024-06-1386.8%c

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

b. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

c. 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
Juliana F. HillIndependent · Audit (Chair) · Compensation · Nominating/Governance$105,000$107,000$0$0$212,000
James YaffeIndependent · Audit · Compensation · Nominating/Governance (Chair)100,000107,00000207,000
Tracey EdmondsIndependent · Audit · Compensation (Chair) · Nominating/Governance100,000107,00000207,000
György GattyánNot independent · Newly elected57,514107,00000164,514
Suhail RizviNot independent · Board Chair0159,16300159,163
Natalia PremovicIndependent · Departed during FY · Newly elected23,57100023,571
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Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$65,000
Annual equity retainer$100,000
Per board meeting fee
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)10,000 / 15,000 / 15,000
Stock ownership guideline
09b

Total cost of the board

ComponentFY2025
Cash retainers and fees$386,085
Equity awards (grant-date value)$587,163
All other compensation$0
Total cost of the board$973,248

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

10b

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
1Playboy2025Ben Kohn$850,720$1,908,229$0$0$3,688,107

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, Ben KohnDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 31. As printed: 3,688,107. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c48 · span 439807–439816
2Section 01, Chris RileyDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 31. As printed: 1,427,050. Filing ↗machine: r6 · c48 · span 453508–453517
3Section 01, Marc CrossmanDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 31. As printed: 1,424,819. Filing ↗machine: r4 · c48 · span 446684–446693
4Section 03, Chris Riley RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 476580–476587
5Section 03, Chris Riley RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 478396–478403
6Section 03, Marc Crossman RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 474591–474598
7Section 03, Marc Crossman RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 472775–472782
8Section 03, Ben Kohn RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 470782–470791
9Section 03, Ben Kohn RSUDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards Table” · grants of plan-based awards table. Filing ↗machine: span 468938–468945
10Section 08, Juliana F. HillDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 212,000. Filing ↗machine: span 321654–321661
11Section 08, James YaffeDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 207,000. Filing ↗machine: span 319766–319773
12Section 08, Tracey EdmondsDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 207,000. Filing ↗machine: span 317882–317889
13Section 08, György GattyánDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 164,514. Filing ↗machine: span 323737–323744
14Section 08, Suhail RizviDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 159,163. Filing ↗machine: span 315969–315976
15Section 08, Natalia PremovicDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 23,571. Filing ↗machine: span 324583–324589
16Section 06, 2026 voteForm 8-K2026-06-170001628280-26-043729Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 89.24% (votes for as printed: 65,300,890). Filing ↗
17Section 06, 2025 voteForm 8-K2025-06-160001803914-25-000102Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 84.93% (votes for as printed: 53,674,646). Filing ↗
18Section 06, 2024 voteForm 8-K2024-06-140001803914-24-000047Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 86.8% (votes for as printed: 26,479,482). Filing ↗
19Section 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
20Section 09b board cost (computed)ComputedcomputedCash 386,085 + equity 587,163 + all other 0 = 973,248, summed across the director compensation table rows.machine: formula: Σ = 973,248
21Playboy (subject), Section 10b CEO totalDEF 14A2026-04-300001628280-26-028967CEO total compensation as printed in Playboy's own proxy. As printed: 3,688,107. Filing ↗machine: r2 · c48 · span 439807–439816