Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Essential Utilities, Inc. (WTRG)

Daniel Schuller

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

$2,419,488

FY2024: $1,973,906

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Daniel Schuller 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$500,560$521,812$582,978
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$647,856$847,656$851,687
Option awards$78,862$97,724$165,161
Non-equity incentive$476,465$480,826$751,146
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$27,640$25,888$68,516
Total$1,731,383$1,973,906$2,419,488

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.

$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.4M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU11,790$420,310—

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.

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 Schuller · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,419,488
Colleen ArnoldPresident, Aqua$1,228,564
Michael HuwarPresident, Peoples Gas$1,205,483

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