Chief Financial Officer · Shift4 Payments, Inc. (FOUR)

Christopher Cruz

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Christopher Cruz as a named executive officer of Shift4 Payments; the record below is that year, complete. 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

$18,942,269

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Shift4 Payments by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Christopher Cruz compensation by year

Shift4 Payments Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Shift4 Payments reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$173,077
Bonus$0
Stock awards$18,000,000
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$500,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$269,192
Total$18,942,269

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Shift4 Payments, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-197191, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Shift4 Payments, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-197191. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU121,655$7,660,615—
RSU97,324$6,128,492—
RSU2,367$149,050—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Shift4 Payments, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Shift4 Payments’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Jared IsaacmanFormer Chief Executive Officer; Former Executive Chairman of the Board$21,752,657
Christopher Cruz · this pageChief Financial Officer$18,942,269
Taylor LauberChief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board$12,211,164
Nancy DismanFormer Chief Financial Officer$4,183,675
Jordan FrankelChief Legal Officer$3,952,083

Board service

Shift4 Payments board · FY2021–FY2025
Director compensation in US dollars, as Shift4 Payments reports it. Most recent year first; a dash means the company reported no figure in that column.
Fiscal yearCash feesStock awardsOption awardsOtherTotal
FY2025$0$0$0$0—
FY2024$82,500$200,000$0$0$282,500
FY2023$83,335$200,020$0$0$283,355
FY2022$41,666$108,300—$-300$149,666
FY2021$35,000$108,300——$143,300

Each year as the company reported it in Shift4 Payments's director compensation table. Totals are the company's own disclosed totals.

How this board is paid

Company policy: Shift4 Payments pays directors a $50,000 cash retainer and $210,000 in RSUs. As stated in Shift4 Payments's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

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