Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer · Warner Music Group Corp. (WMG)

Carletta Higginson

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Carletta Higginson as a named executive officer of Warner Music; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,782,970

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 20, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Carletta Higginson compensation by year

Warner Music Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Warner Music reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$1,137,500
Bonus$1,982,399
Stock awards$1,655,196
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$7,875
Total$4,782,970

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Warner Music Group Corp. DEF 14A filed January 20, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-001664, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU53,359$1,817,408—
RSU34,970$1,191,078—

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

Warner Music’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Robert KynclChief Executive Officer$15,909,250
Armin ZerzaExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$12,340,581
Guy MootCo-Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Warner Chappell Music$6,003,921
Carianne MarshallCo-Chair and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Chappell Music$5,372,455
Carletta Higginson · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer$4,782,970
Bryan CastellaniFormer Chief Financial Officer$4,696,813

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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 Warner Music'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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