President and CEO, PPM America, Inc. · Jackson Financial Inc. (JXN)

Craig Smith

A named executive officer of Jackson Financial 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

$5,689,448

FY2023: $5,304,278

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Craig Smith compensation by year

Jackson Financial Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Jackson Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2025
Salary$540,000$573,846
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$2,201,589$2,343,508
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$2,524,569$2,730,094
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$38,120$42,000
Total$5,304,278$5,689,448

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Jackson Financial Inc. DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-040158, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$5.3M
$5.7M
FY23
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU56,386$6,013,567—
PSU50,942$5,432,964—
PSU35,178$3,751,734—
RSU12,121$1,292,705—
RSU11,249$1,199,706—
RSU7,683$819,392—

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

Jackson Financial’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Laura PrieskornChief Executive Officer, President and Director$11,478,687
Craig Smith · this pagePresident and CEO, PPM America, Inc.$5,689,448
Scott RomineFormer President and CEO, Jackson National Life Distributors$5,519,879
Don CummingsExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$4,294,083
Chris RaubExecutive Vice President, JFI and President, Jackson National Life Insurance Company$3,955,465
Carrie ChelkoExecutive Vice President and General Counsel$3,251,558

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Jackson Financial's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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