Chief Financial Officer · SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC (SFST)

Christian Zych

A named executive officer of SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 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

$539,606

FY2024: $360,910

3rd of 6 named executive officers at Southern First Bancshares by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 6, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Christian Zych compensation by year

SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$203,000$319,300
Bonus$80,000$100,000
Stock awards$58,400$77,280
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$19,510$43,026
Total$360,910$539,606

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC DEF 14A filed April 6, 2026, accession 0001206774-26-000194, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES INC filed document, accession 0001206774-26-000194. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 6, 2026.

$361K
$540K
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU3,600$185,472—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 6, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-21Tax withholding—153$57.077,078

The 1 most recent of 1 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 →

SOUTHERN FIRST BANCSHARES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
R. Arthur Seaver, Jr.Chief Executive Officer$1,146,832
Calvin HurstPresident$697,941
Christian Zych · this pageChief Financial Officer$539,606
Wesley WilbanksChief Credit Officer$365,472
Julie FairchildChief Accounting Officer$312,230
William Aiken IIIChief Risk Officer$152,050

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