Former Vice President of Human Resources and Secretary · Daktronics Inc (DAKT)

Carla Gatzke

A named executive officer of Daktronics in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 to FY2026. 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, FY2026

$582,500

FY2025: $514,937

7th of 7 named executive officers at Daktronics by FY2026 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed July 28, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Carla Gatzke compensation by year

Daktronics Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Daktronics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Salary$193,154$204,462$210,487$217,973$226,599$208,980$244,292$252,738$273,715$298,986
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$10,000
Stock awards$18,618$21,285$22,303$16,175$15,875$9,500$7,550$12,116$193,472$125,938
Option awards$20,541$19,923$19,373$13,500$11,438$19,750$16,313$12,116$13,460$0
Non-equity incentive$0$875$0$0$0$0$3,113$116,972$23,940$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$6,636$6,774$6,341$6,481$6,798$0$7,329$7,862$10,350$147,576
Total$238,949$253,319$258,504$254,129$260,710$238,230$278,597$401,804$514,937$582,500

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Daktronics Inc DEF 14A filed July 28, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-049957, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Daktronics Inc filed document, accession 0001628280-26-049957. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed July 28, 2026.

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$253K
$259K
$254K
$261K
$238K
$279K
$402K
$515K
$583K
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FY19
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FY21
FY23
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FY26
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU17,680$222,061—
Option2,500—$4.11
Option2,500—$5.66
Option6,750—$3.02
Option1,829—$9.85
Option2,090—$11.87

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

Daktronics’s named executive officers, FY2026

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2026 total
Bradley WiemannExecutive Vice President - Advisor to the CEO and Former Interim President and CEO$1,259,690
Ramesh JayaramanPresident and CEO$1,098,324
Howard AtkinsActing Chief Financial Officer and Chief Transformation Officer$945,425
Sheila AndersonChief Data and Analytics Officer$757,541
Matthew KurtenbachVice President of Manufacturing$719,933
Brett WendlerVice President of Design and Development$645,533
Carla Gatzke · this pageFormer Vice President of Human Resources and Secretary$582,500

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