Chairman and Chief Executive Officer · The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (HIG)

Christopher Swift

A named executive officer of Hartford Financial Services 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

$22,114,212

FY2024: $19,343,348

1st of 6 named executive officers at Hartford Financial Services by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for Hartford Financial Services, FY2025

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What this number hides

The filing gives the total. Hartford Financial Services’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 9, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Christopher Swift compensation by year

Hartford Financial Services Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Hartford Financial Services reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$1,075,000$1,100,000$1,137,500$1,150,000$1,150,000$1,150,000$1,187,500$1,200,000$1,200,000$1,200,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$3,404,473$3,472,500$3,736,000$4,551,525$3,740,850$5,001,475$5,153,500$5,747,175$10,072,800$10,982,790
Option awards$3,575,000$3,750,000$4,000,000$4,125,000$4,250,000$4,625,000$5,000,000$5,250,000$3,000,000$3,412,500
Non-equity incentive$1,925,000$4,675,000$4,800,000$4,440,000$2,400,000$4,740,000$4,440,000$3,861,000$4,719,000$5,808,000
Pension and deferred compensation$17,769$34,380$0$48,198$33,824$8,184$0$37,310$25,133$30,468
All other$81,879$83,405$210,115$246,025$231,521$299,689$305,469$312,765$326,415$680,454
Total$10,079,121$13,115,285$13,883,615$14,560,748$11,806,195$15,824,348$16,086,469$16,408,250$19,343,348$22,114,212

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 9, 2026, accession 0000874766-26-000025, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. filed document, accession 0000874766-26-000025. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 9, 2026.

$10.1M
$13.1M
$13.9M
$14.6M
$11.8M
$15.8M
$16.1M
$16.4M
$19.3M
$22.1M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU192,903$26,582,033—
RSU177,322$24,434,972—
Option352,263—$49.01
Option327,679—$55.27
Option82,978—$78.28
Option77,610—$95.74
Option301,932—$69.41
Option284,819—$53.81
Option310,820—$51.87
Option99,403—$116.41
Option302,908—$48.89

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in The Hartford Financial Services Group, 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 9, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-07Gift—35,088$0.0041,569.49

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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Hartford Financial Services discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Voluntary resignation—$35,837,860$0$41,645,860
Change in control and involuntary termination$9,000,000$35,837,860$38,775$50,684,635
Involuntary termination without cause$9,000,000$35,837,860$38,775$50,684,635
Change in control and resignation for good reason$9,000,000$35,837,860$38,775$50,684,635
Death—$35,837,860$55,114$41,700,974
Disability—$35,837,860$55,114$41,700,974

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Hartford Financial Services’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Christopher Swift · this pageChairman and Chief Executive Officer$22,114,212
Adin Morris TookerPresident$7,570,730
Beth CostelloExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$7,026,796
Deepa SoniFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Information and Operations Officer$6,091,303
Amy StepnowskiExecutive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer; President of HIMCO$4,757,367
Donald HuntExecutive Vice President and General Counsel$3,544,786

Board service

Hartford Financial Services board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Hartford Financial Services pays directors a $115,000 cash retainer and $190,000 in RSUs. As stated in Hartford Financial Services's FY2025 proxy.

Committees

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How this record is built

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