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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,595,179

FY2024: $1,000,396

2nd of 6 named executive officers at United Parks & Resorts by FY2025 total.

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

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Byron Surrett compensation by year

United Parks & Resorts Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as United Parks & Resorts reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$245,833$250,000$250,000
Bonus$15,450$3,750$5,000
Stock awards$499,932$599,905$1,277,361
Option awards$179,262$133,523$55,200
Non-equity incentive$780$5,697$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$7,088$7,521$7,618
Total$948,345$1,000,396$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.

How this page was built: the United Parks & Resorts Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-197833. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

$948K
$1.0M
$1.6M
FY23
FY24
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—
RSU5,635$204,551—
PSU1,909$69,297—
Option1,911—$34.33
Option819—$34.33
Option549—$56.92
Option352—$53.18
Option1,540—$64.94
Option1,239—$52.96
Option531—$52.96
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 · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$255,000$0$15,000$270,000
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Death$5,000$177,792—$182,792
Disability$5,000$177,792—$182,792
Change in control and involuntary termination$255,000$1,386,035$15,000$1,656,035
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$1,380,749—$1,380,749

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in United Parks & Resorts Inc.'s FY2025 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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