Executive Vice President and CFO · Commerce Bancshares Inc (CBSH)

Charles Kim

A named executive officer of Commerce Bancshares 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

$2,052,252

FY2024: $1,870,406

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Commerce Bancshares by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 13, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Charles Kim compensation by year

Commerce Bancshares Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Commerce Bancshares reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2024FY2025
Salary$447,160$460,132$473,891$495,470$511,602$578,641$596,384
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$320,704$826,738$371,610$395,908$492,599$509,436$529,201
Option awards$76,313$76,315$83,738$83,736$83,738$0$0
Non-equity incentive$318,600$456,084$469,368$263,581$233,688$705,904$802,483
Pension and deferred compensation$18,205$53,410$0$99,496$87,413$7,921$30,099
All other$52,055$56,207$67,212$69,534$56,396$68,504$94,085
Total$1,233,037$1,928,886$1,465,819$1,407,725$1,465,436$1,870,406$2,052,252

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Commerce Bancshares Inc DEF 14A filed March 13, 2026, accession 0000022356-26-000107, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Commerce Bancshares Inc filed document, accession 0000022356-26-000107. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 13, 2026.

$1.2M
$1.9M
$1.5M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.9M
$2.1M
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FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU38,347$2,007,082—
Option1,488—$57.24

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

6 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 13, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-07-27Exercise or conversion—9,662$36.44146,752
2026-07-27Tax withholding—1,646$59.43145,106
2026-07-27Disposition to the issuer—5,925$59.43139,181
2026-07-27Sale—19,771$59.18119,410
2026-07-27Exercise or conversion derivative—9,662$0.000
2026-07-01Grant or award—44,262$58.74137,090

The 6 most recent of 6 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 →

Commerce Bancshares’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John KemperPresident and CEO$6,498,082
Charles Kim · this pageExecutive Vice President and CFO$2,052,252
Kevin BarthExecutive Vice President$2,037,072
John HandyExecutive Vice President$1,745,272
Robert HolmesExecutive Vice President$1,663,981

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