President, Aqua · Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)

Colleen Arnold

A named executive officer of Essential Utilities in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,228,564

FY2024: $994,234

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 17, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Colleen Arnold compensation by year

Essential Utilities Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Essential Utilities reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$357,807$383,168$426,958
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$256,597$321,620$355,463
Option awards$32,416$37,076$68,934
Non-equity incentive$200,000$219,213$341,691
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$34,743$33,157$35,519
Total$881,563$994,234$1,228,564

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Essential Utilities, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 17, 2026, accession 0001552781-26-000133, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$882K
$994K
$1.2M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU4,187$149,261—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Essential Utilities, 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 March 17, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-07Sale—2,855$39.5517,347

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 →

Essential Utilities’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Christopher FranklinChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer$9,212,815
Christopher LuningExecutive Vice President and General Counsel$2,970,353
Daniel SchullerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,419,488
Colleen Arnold · this pagePresident, Aqua$1,228,564
Michael HuwarPresident, Peoples Gas$1,205,483

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How this record is built

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