Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer · Western Union CO (WU)

Benjamin Hawksworth

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Benjamin Hawksworth as a named executive officer of Western Union; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,160,900

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 31, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Benjamin Hawksworth compensation by year

Western Union Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Western Union reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$510,400
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,356,000
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$201,300
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$93,200
Total$2,160,900

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Western Union CO DEF 14A filed March 31, 2026, accession 0001206774-26-000167, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
Option111,487—$12.80

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Western Union discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$2,401,300$2,528,000$12,000$5,308,500
Death—$2,528,000—$2,895,200
Involuntary termination without cause$751,300$1,002,600$12,000$1,935,100
Disability—$2,528,000—$2,895,200

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Western Union CO's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Western Union’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Devin B. McGranahanPresident and Chief Executive Officer$10,697,800
Matt CagwinExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$3,349,100
Benjamin Hawksworth · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer$2,160,900
Giovanni AngeliniPresident, Europe, Middle East and Africa$1,828,100
Benjamin AdamsExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer$1,769,300

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Western Union's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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