Chief Executive Officer · YUM! Brands, Inc. (YUM)

Chris Turner

A named executive officer of YUM! Brands in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 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

$9,130,462

FY2024: $5,152,448

4th of 6 named executive officers at YUM! Brands by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for YUM! Brands, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 3, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Chris Turner compensation by year

YUM! Brands Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as YUM! Brands reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$283,846$848,077$850,000$871,154$896,154$921,154$1,020,288
Bonus$500,000$714,000$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,500,009$1,075,610$3,585,851$1,977,749$2,175,374$2,373,212$4,651,763
Option awards$0$1,000,015$1,125,013$625,001$687,522$750,027$1,400,032
Non-equity incentive$463,021$0$2,552,550$1,222,594$1,875,938$963,480$1,842,862
Pension and deferred compensation$0$404$716$0$0$0$0
All other$54,290$167,796$124,727$139,443$109,370$144,575$215,517
Total$2,801,166$3,805,902$8,238,857$4,835,941$5,744,358$5,152,448$9,130,462

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: YUM! Brands, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 3, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-142078, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the YUM! Brands, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-142078. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 3, 2026.

$2.8M
$3.8M
$8.2M
$4.8M
$5.7M
$5.2M
$9.1M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU29,843$4,514,649—
RSU18,152$2,746,035—
Option5,866—$122.07
Option11,486—$131.31
Option19,863—$130.27
Option29,269—$148.15
Option10,136—$152.98

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

YUM! Brands’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
David GibbsChief Executive Officer$20,861,526
Sean TresvantChief Executive Officer of Taco Bell Division and YUM Chief Consumer Officer$12,803,613
Tracy SkeansChief Operating Officer and Chief People and Culture Officer$12,415,871
Chris Turner · this pageChief Executive Officer$9,130,462
Aaron PowellChief Executive Officer of Pizza Hut Division$5,897,421
Ranjith RoyChief Financial Officer$3,201,104

Board service

YUM! Brands board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: YUM! Brands pays directors a $0 cash retainer and $280,000 in Stock. As stated in YUM! Brands's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

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