SEVP, Head of Consumer Banking · Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)

Allyson Schlesinger

A named executive officer of Columbia Financial in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2024

$860,392

FY2023: $937,443

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 25, 2025 (DEF 14A).

Allyson Schlesinger compensation by year

Columbia Financial Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Columbia Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$400,000$411,923$420,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$0$207,587$170,968
Option awards$0$69,223$56,960
Non-equity incentive$228,191$111,384$134,673
Pension and deferred compensation$0$83,281$40,094
All other$73,330$54,045$37,697
Total$701,521$937,443$860,392

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Columbia Financial, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 25, 2025, accession 0001104659-25-039386, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$702K
$937K
$860K
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU13,023$205,894—
PSU10,368$163,918—
RSU3,456$54,639—
RSU2,894$45,754—
Option8,421—$15.94
Option9,292—$16.49

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Columbia Financial, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Columbia Financial discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death$672,000$223,680—$1,030,353
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,478,673$470,205—$2,293,223
Involuntary termination without cause$806,673——$806,673
Disability$672,000$223,680—$1,030,353
Retirement———$134,673

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Columbia Financial, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Columbia Financial’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Thomas KemlyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$2,759,021
E. Thomas AllenSEVP, Chief Operating Officer$1,254,850
Dennis GibneySEVP, Chief Financial Officer$882,556
Allyson Schlesinger · this pageSEVP, Head of Consumer Banking$860,392
John KlimowichSEVP, Chief Risk Officer$857,637

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