Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer · HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC. (HIW)

Brian Leary

A named executive officer of HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 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

$2,024,547

FY2024: $2,036,514

3rd of 4 named executive officers at Highwoods Properties by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 27, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Brian Leary compensation by year

HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$199,038$475,961$461,250$471,895$478,743$479,839$489,067
Bonus$76,394$0$0—$0$0$0
Stock awards$700,993$691,109$781,431$848,341$825,465$900,964$906,766
Option awards$0$0——$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$113,956$415,125$661,894$602,929$494,992$557,827$525,781
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0——$0$0$0
All other$170,155$52,182$63,000$72,726$85,440$97,884$102,933
Total$1,260,536$1,634,377$1,967,575$1,995,891$1,884,640$2,036,514$2,024,547

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC. DEF 14A filed March 27, 2026, accession 0000921082-26-000030, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES, INC. filed document, accession 0000921082-26-000030. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 27, 2026.

$1.3M
$1.6M
$2.0M
$2.0M
$1.9M
$2.0M
$2.0M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
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FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU48,832$1,260,842—
RSU39,063$1,008,607—

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

HIGHWOODS PROPERTIES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Theodore KlinckPresident and Chief Executive Officer$5,124,352
Brendan MaioranaExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,051,282
Brian Leary · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$2,024,547
Jeffrey MillerExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$1,431,816

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