Executive Vice President, Chief Merchant · ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, Inc. (AAP)

Bruce Starnes

A named executive officer of ADVANCE AUTO PARTS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 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

$2,276,257

FY2024: $2,344,063

5th of 7 named executive officers at Advance Auto Parts by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 1, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Bruce Starnes compensation by year

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as ADVANCE AUTO PARTS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$288,462$600,000
Bonus$300,000—
Stock awards$1,300,022$1,169,698
Option awards$315,946—
Non-equity incentive$26,615$497,097
Pension and deferred compensation$0—
All other$113,018$9,462
Total$2,344,063$2,276,257

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 1, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-138147, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the ADVANCE AUTO PARTS, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-138147. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 1, 2026.

$2.3M
$2.3M
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU600,000$33,000,000—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 1, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-06-27Tax withholding—3,003$62.1842,909

The 1 most recent of 1 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Shane O'KellyPresident, Chief Executive Officer$9,121,929
Ryan GrimslandExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$3,085,055
Shweta BhatiaFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer$2,509,675
Herman WordFormer Executive Vice President, Professional and Carquest Independents$2,469,270
Bruce Starnes · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Merchant$2,276,257
Kristen SolerExecutive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer$2,040,134
Jeffrey ViningExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$1,722,572

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