Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administrative Officer · Strategic Education, Inc. (STRA)

Daniel Jackson

A named executive officer of Strategic Education in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$3,303,210

FY2024: $3,210,385

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 11, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Daniel Jackson compensation by year

Strategic Education Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Strategic Education reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$500,000$525,000$540,000$574,000$600,000$616,962
Bonus$0—$135,000$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000
Option awards$0—$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$750,000$350,038$0$571,704$600,000$675,648
Pension and deferred compensation$0—$0$0$0$0
All other$4,200$8,550$8,700$9,955$10,385$10,600
Total$2,254,200$1,883,588$1,683,700$3,155,659$3,210,385$3,303,210

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Strategic Education, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 11, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-026380, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.3M
$1.9M
$1.7M
$3.2M
$3.2M
$3.3M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU11,054$1,087,603—

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

Strategic Education’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Karl McDonnellChief Executive Officer & Director$5,672,067
Robert SilbermanChairman$4,116,028
Daniel Jackson · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administrative Officer$3,303,210
Lizette HerraizChief Legal Officer & General Counsel$1,947,100
Christa HokensonChief Human Resources Officer$1,946,915

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