Chief Parks Operations Officer - Non-Florida Parks · United Parks & Resorts Inc. (PRKS)

Byron Surrett

A named executive officer of United Parks & Resorts 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

$1,595,179

FY2023: $948,345

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Byron Surrett compensation by year

United Parks & Resorts Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as United Parks & Resorts reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2025
Salary$245,833$250,000
Bonus$15,450$5,000
Stock awards$499,932$1,277,361
Option awards$179,262$55,200
Non-equity incentive$780$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$7,088$7,618
Total$948,345$1,595,179

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: United Parks & Resorts Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-197833, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$948K
$1.6M
FY23
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU37,619$1,365,570—
PSU7,544$273,847—
Option1,540—$64.94
Option1,911—$34.33
Option352—$53.18
Option549—$56.92
Option1,239—$52.96
Option531—$52.96
Option819—$34.33
Option823—$53.18

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments United Parks & Resorts discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$259,447$927,194$15,000$1,201,641
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$915,169—$915,169
Death$9,447$198,003—$207,450
Voluntary resignation———$0
Disability$9,447$198,003—$207,450
Involuntary termination without cause$259,447$0$15,000$274,447

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in United Parks & Resorts Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

United Parks & Resorts’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Marc SwansonChief Executive Officer$4,891,868
Byron Surrett · this pageChief Parks Operations Officer - Non-Florida Parks$1,595,179
Christopher FinazzoChief Commercial Officer$1,585,479
Kyle MillerChief Parks Operations Officer - Florida Parks$1,354,580
James ForresterInterim Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$910,445
James MikolaichikFormer Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$350,857

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