Executive Vice President and CEO, Home Auto · Synchrony Financial (SYF)

Curtis Howse

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Curtis Howse as a named executive officer of Synchrony Financial; 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,503,303

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Curtis Howse compensation by year

Synchrony Financial Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Synchrony Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$650,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$2,685,967
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$937,625
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$229,711
Total$4,503,303

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Synchrony Financial DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001601712-26-000017, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU35,109$2,929,142—
PSU25,147$2,098,040—
RSU20,576$1,716,616—
RSU19,150$1,597,721—
RSU10,403$867,961—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 29, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-17Grant or award—182$80.7586,796
2026-05-15Grant or award—181$71.3886,618
2026-05-01Sale10b5-18,436$76.5586,437

The 3 most recent of 3 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 Synchrony Financial discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$9,757,387
Voluntary resignation$0$5,394,825$0$17,702,333
Involuntary termination without cause$650,000$5,394,825$0$18,352,333
Retirement$0$5,394,825$0$17,702,333
Death$0$9,209,480$0$21,516,988
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,212,995$9,209,480$32,928$25,762,911

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

Synchrony Financial’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Brian DoublesPresident and Chief Executive Officer$21,373,734
Brian WenzelExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$6,362,973
Jonathan MothnerExecutive Vice President, Chief Risk and Legal Officer$5,367,606
Carol JuelExecutive Vice President and Chief Technology and Operating Officer$5,345,403
Curtis Howse · this pageExecutive Vice President and CEO, Home Auto$4,503,303

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How this record is built

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