Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC (CWST)

Bradford Helgeson

A named executive officer of CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS 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

$1,750,228

FY2024: $1,661,080

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Casella Waste Systems by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Bradford Helgeson compensation by year

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$69,886$450,000$500,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$149,953$764,197$876,936
Option awards$525,466$0$0
Non-equity incentive$33,932$436,338$305,999
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$1,118$10,545$67,293
Total$780,355$1,661,080$1,750,228

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-161565, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS INC filed document, accession 0001193125-26-161565. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 17, 2026.

$780K
$1.7M
$1.8M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU5,706$558,846—
PSU5,593$547,778—
RSU1,902$186,282—
RSU1,243$121,739—
RSU627$61,408—
Option10,500—$79.72

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

CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John CasellaExecutive Chairman of the Board and Secretary and Former Chief Executive Officer$4,405,946
Edmond ColettaPresident and Chief Executive Officer$2,830,523
Bradford Helgeson · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$1,750,228
Shelley SaywardSenior Vice President and General Counsel$1,138,822
Sean StevesFormer Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Solid Waste Operations$1,008,261

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