EVP and Chief Financial Officer · MERCURY SYSTEMS INC (MRCY)

David Farnsworth

A named executive officer of MERCURY SYSTEMS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2026. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2026

$3,298,383

FY2025: $4,158,581

2nd of 4 named executive officers at Mercury Systems by FY2026 total.

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

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David Farnsworth compensation by year

MERCURY SYSTEMS Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as MERCURY SYSTEMS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025FY2026
Salary$415,385$459,865$495,588
Bonus$398,000$0$0
Stock awards$4,674,584$3,088,461$2,093,937
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$577,150$674,470
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$34,846$33,105$34,388
Total$5,522,815$4,158,581$3,298,383

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MERCURY SYSTEMS INC DEF 14A filed September 17, 2026, accession 0001049521-26-000077, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the MERCURY SYSTEMS INC filed document, accession 0001049521-26-000077. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed September 17, 2026.

$5.5M
$4.2M
$3.3M
FY24
FY25
FY26
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU57,409$7,245,590—
PSU36,171$4,565,142—
RSU14,870$1,876,743—
RSU13,672$1,725,543—
RSU13,153$1,660,040—
RSU10,438$1,317,380—
PSU10,254$1,294,157—
RSU6,152$776,444—
PSU5,640$711,824—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in MERCURY SYSTEMS INC's FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

MERCURY SYSTEMS’s named executive officers, FY2026

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2026 total
William BallhausChairman, President and Chief Executive Officer$11,131,048
David Farnsworth · this pageEVP and Chief Financial Officer$3,298,383
Stuart KupinskyEVP, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,708,802
Steven RatnerEVP and Chief Human Resources Officer$2,550,598

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