Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder · DROPBOX, INC. (DBX)

Andrew Houston

A named executive officer of DROPBOX in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,166,622

FY2024: $1,706,505

5th of 6 named executive officers at Dropbox by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for DROPBOX, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-06.

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Andrew Houston compensation by year

DROPBOX Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as DROPBOX reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$325,000$400,000$675,000$700,000$587,500$606,250$625,000$625,000$756,250$800,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$0$109,569,500$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$210,000$260,000$548,049$679,192$675,389$883,679$500,000$485,000$551,480$750,400
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$3,000$3,000$6,000$6,000$6,000$25,340$21,000$429,577$398,775$616,222
Total$538,000$110,232,500$1,229,049$1,385,192$1,268,889$1,515,269$1,146,000$1,539,577$1,706,505$2,166,622

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: DROPBOX, INC. DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0001467623-26-000020, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the DROPBOX, INC. filed document, accession 0001467623-26-000020. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 7, 2026.

$538K
$110.2M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.2M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU8,266,666$229,813,315—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in DROPBOX, INC.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

19 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 7, 2026)
current to 2026-11-06 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-02Conversion derivative10b5-1383,800$0.0065,177,229
2026-11-02Sale10b5-1383,800$35.810
2026-11-02Conversion10b5-1383,800$0.00383,800
2026-10-12Sale10b5-129,500$35.090
2026-10-12Conversion derivative10b5-129,500$0.0065,561,029
2026-10-12Conversion10b5-129,500$0.0029,500
2026-10-01Conversion derivative10b5-1354,300$0.0065,590,529
2026-10-01Conversion10b5-1354,300$0.00354,300

The 8 most recent of 19 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

DROPBOX’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ashraf AlkarmiGeneral Manager and Senior Vice President, Core Products$17,255,405
Ali DasdanChief Technology Officer$17,115,597
Timothy ReganFormer Chief Financial Officer$6,977,144
William YoonChief Legal Officer$5,939,280
Andrew Houston · this pageChief Executive Officer and Co-Founder$2,166,622
Ross TennenbaumChief Financial Officer$372,917

Board service

DROPBOX board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: DROPBOX pays directors a $50,000 cash retainer and $250,000 in RSUs. As stated in DROPBOX's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

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