Chief Executive Officer · Global Payments, Inc. (GPN)

Cameron Bready

A named executive officer of Global Payments in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 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

$20,307,392

FY2024: $17,175,695

1st of 5 named executive officers at Global Payments by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for Global Payments, FY2025

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The filing gives the total. Global Payments’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 17, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Cameron Bready compensation by year

Global Payments Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Global Payments reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$530,000$565,000$585,000$623,269$525,000$700,000$725,000$958,333$1,000,000$1,050,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0—$0$0
Stock awards$937,667$1,155,759$2,494,011$6,820,333$5,046,495$6,731,891$5,474,783$10,193,616$10,606,595$12,129,964
Option awards$308,568$385,274$457,503$812,513$1,312,506$1,328,775$1,367,516$3,250,060$3,437,548$4,002,022
Non-equity incentive$861,780$667,830$2,152,700$1,113,832$0$805,000$1,152,449$1,412,778$1,942,000$2,903,553
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0—$0$0
All other$35,715$29,328$34,063$75,859$97,766$85,002$135,814$185,696$189,552$223,853
Total$2,673,730$2,803,191$5,723,276$9,445,796$6,981,767$9,650,968$8,855,562$16,000,483$17,175,695$20,307,392

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Global Payments, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 17, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-029453, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Global Payments, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-029453. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 17, 2026.

$2.7M
$2.8M
$5.7M
$9.4M
$7.0M
$9.7M
$8.9M
$16.0M
$17.2M
$20.3M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU257,674$19,943,967—
PSU151,976$11,762,942—
PSU147,540$11,419,597—
PSU105,698$8,181,025—
RSU47,218$3,654,674—
RSU36,534$2,827,732—
RSU35,942$2,781,911—
RSU17,617$1,363,556—
RSU5,156$399,074—
RSU5,073$392,650—
Option12,408—$98.84
Option12,172—$113.12

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Global Payments, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it. The 12 largest of 14 award rows shown.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

4 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 17, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-07-29Exercise or conversion derivative—9,703$0.000
2026-07-29Exercise or conversion—9,703$74.66441,661
2026-07-29Tax withholding—8,871$88.27432,790
2026-06-01Tax withholding—2,297$75.46431,958

The 4 most recent of 4 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 →

Global Payments’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Cameron Bready · this pageChief Executive Officer$20,307,392
Robert CortopassiPresident and Chief Operating Officer$8,144,355
Joshua WhippleChief Financial Officer$7,521,195
Ryan LoyChief Technology Officer$6,452,642
David GreenChief Administrative Officer$6,033,649

Board service

Global Payments board · FY2024–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Global Payments pays directors a $125,000 cash retainer and $230,000 in Stock. As stated in Global Payments's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Global Payments's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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