Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer · TKO Group Holdings, Inc. (TKO)

Ariel Emanuel

A named executive officer of TKO in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 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

$67,361,782

FY2024: $18,129,271

1st of 4 named executive officers at TKO by FY2025 total.

4 named officers on file for TKO, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Ariel Emanuel compensation by year

TKO Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as TKO reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$911,538$3,000,000$3,000,000
Bonus$24,000,000$4,290,000$11,880,000
Stock awards$40,000,094$2,503,864$43,982,679
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$8,210,000$8,120,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$928$125,407$379,103
Total$64,912,560$18,129,271$67,361,782

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: TKO Group Holdings, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 23, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-173833, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the TKO Group Holdings, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-173833. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 23, 2026.

$64.9M
$18.1M
$67.4M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU194,082$40,563,138—
RSU191,959$40,119,431—
RSU88,763$18,551,467—
RSU19,376$4,049,584—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments TKO discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$6,000,000$103,283,620—$123,283,620
Change in control, no termination$0$103,283,620—$103,283,620
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$6,000,000$0—$123,283,620
Death$0$103,283,620—$7,000,000
Change in control and resignation for good reason$6,000,000$103,283,620—$123,283,620
Disability$0$103,283,620—$7,000,000
Voluntary resignation$0$0——
Involuntary termination without cause$6,000,000$0—$123,283,620
Involuntary for cause$0$0—$0

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in TKO Group Holdings, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

TKO’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ariel Emanuel · this pageExecutive Chair and Chief Executive Officer$67,361,782
Mark ShapiroPresident and Chief Operating Officer$42,644,346
Andrew SchleimerChief Financial Officer$23,139,424
Seth KraussChief Administrative Officer and Senior Counsel to the Board of Directors and Senior Management$9,970,603

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