Executive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer · NICOLET BANKSHARES INC (NIC)

Brad Hutjens

A named executive officer of NICOLET BANKSHARES 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,009,239

FY2024: $1,145,866

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 24, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Brad Hutjens compensation by year

NICOLET BANKSHARES Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as NICOLET BANKSHARES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$390,000$390,000$450,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$48,680$350,875$0
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$97,742$351,000$506,250
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$123,790$53,991$52,989
Total$660,212$1,145,866$1,009,239

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: NICOLET BANKSHARES INC DEF 14A filed March 24, 2026, accession 0001174850-26-000086, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$660K
$1.1M
$1.0M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU2,556$310,043—
Option10,000—$78.67

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

NICOLET BANKSHARES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael DanielsChairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer$14,944,068
H. Phillip Moore, Jr.Chief Financial Officer$1,108,555
Eric WitczakExecutive Vice President, Retail and Ag Banking$1,079,276
Brad Hutjens · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Credit Officer$1,009,239
William BohnExecutive Vice President, Wealth Management, Private Client and Trust Services$992,185

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