Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · Clear Secure, Inc. (YOU)

Caryn Seidman Becker

A named executive officer of Clear Secure in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 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

$11,563,694

FY2024: $6,162,675

2nd of 7 named executive officers at Clear Secure by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for Clear Secure, FY2025

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What this number hides

The filing gives the total. Clear Secure’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 April 22, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Caryn Seidman Becker compensation by year

Clear Secure Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Clear Secure reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$424,999$550,000$550,000$600,000
Bonus—$0$0$400,000
Stock awards—$0$4,999,995$9,999,978
Option awards—$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$246,279$646,745$612,680$563,716
Pension and deferred compensation—$0$0$0
All other—$0$0$0
Total$671,278$1,196,745$6,162,675$11,563,694

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Clear Secure, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 22, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-170704, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Clear Secure, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-170704. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 22, 2026.

$671K
$1.2M
$6.2M
$11.6M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU2,627,560$92,174,805—
RSU394,889$13,852,706—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

66 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 22, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-05Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-1176,096—17,630,246
2026-11-05Grant or award10b5-1176,096—151,787
2026-11-05Disposition to the issuer10b5-1176,096—17,630,246
2026-11-04Sale10b5-110,701$61.260
2026-11-04Sale10b5-1165,395$60.470
2026-08-06Disposition to the issuer10b5-1323,904—17,806,342
2026-08-06Grant or award10b5-1323,904—323,904
2026-08-06Exercise or conversion derivative10b5-1323,904—17,806,342

The 8 most recent of 66 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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Clear Secure discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Disability$0$0$0$0
Death$0$16,445,457$0$16,445,457
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$21,630,959—$21,630,959
Retirement$0$0$0$0
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Change in control and involuntary termination—$21,630,959—$21,630,959

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Clear Secure, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Clear Secure’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael BarkinPresident$13,518,345
Caryn Seidman Becker · this pageChairman and Chief Executive Officer$11,563,694
Jennifer HsuChief Financial Officer$3,254,984
Lynn HaalandFormer General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer$3,005,699
Kyle McLaughlinExecutive Vice President, Aviation$2,691,546
Jonathan SchlegelChief Security Officer$475,082
Kenneth CornickFormer President and Chief Financial Officer$156,112

Board service

Clear Secure board · FY2023–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Clear Secure pays directors a $35,000 cash retainer and $175,000 in RSUs. As stated in Clear Secure's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

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