Chief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President · American Homes 4 Rent (AMH)

Chris Lau

A named executive officer of American Homes 4 Rent 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

$4,493,121

FY2024: $8,967,539

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 27, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Chris Lau compensation by year

American Homes 4 Rent Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as American Homes 4 Rent reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$600,000$624,000$649,000$700,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,936,400$2,058,400$7,263,000$2,680,400
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$796,050$1,036,246$1,041,645$1,098,615
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$12,200$13,276$13,894$14,106
Total$3,344,650$3,731,922$8,967,539$4,493,121

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: American Homes 4 Rent DEF 14A filed March 27, 2026, accession 0001562401-26-000018, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the American Homes 4 Rent filed document, accession 0001562401-26-000018. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 27, 2026.

$3.3M
$3.7M
$9.0M
$4.5M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU143,968$4,621,373—
PSU65,170$2,091,957—
PSU51,821$1,663,454—
PSU40,000$1,284,000—
PSU34,814$1,117,529—
RSU26,667$856,011—
PSU26,201$841,052—
RSU15,354$492,863—
RSU7,764$249,224—
RSU7,242$232,468—
RSU3,869$124,195—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in American Homes 4 Rent's FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments American Homes 4 Rent discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$2,187,500$0$48,400$2,235,900
Change in control, no termination$0$9,641,652$0$9,641,652
Change in control and involuntary termination$3,937,500$9,641,652$77,400$13,656,552
Death$0$9,641,652$0$9,641,652
Disability$0$9,641,652$0$9,641,652

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in American Homes 4 Rent's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

American Homes 4 Rent’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Bryan SmithChief Executive Officer and Trustee$7,535,178
Chris Lau · this pageChief Financial Officer and Senior Executive Vice President$4,493,121
Sara Vogt-LowellChief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer$2,931,580

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