Chairman and CEO · Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)

David Solomon

A named executive officer of Goldman Sachs in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2017 to FY2025. 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, FY2025

$118,891,684

FY2024: $31,290,110

1st of 5 named executive officers at Goldman Sachs by FY2025 total.

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The filing gives the total. Goldman Sachs’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 20, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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David Solomon compensation by year

Goldman Sachs Summary Compensation Table · all 9 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Goldman Sachs reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$1,850,000$1,887,500$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000$2,000,000
Bonus$5,745,000$5,700,375$7,650,000$4,650,000$9,900,000$6,900,000$8,700,000$8,325,000$10,125,000
Stock awards$8,547,708$12,775,034$14,724,012$17,036,275$27,380,180$22,404,343$15,649,863$19,839,812$105,287,875
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$196$0$296$192$0$0$99$0$90
All other$233,207$299,926$283,429$254,190$264,892$305,077$320,855$1,125,298$1,478,719
Total$16,376,111$20,662,835$24,657,737$23,940,657$39,545,072$31,609,420$26,670,817$31,290,110$118,891,684

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 20, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-117433, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-117433. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 20, 2026.

$16.4M
$20.7M
$24.7M
$23.9M
$39.5M
$31.6M
$26.7M
$31.3M
$118.9M
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU300,197$263,873,163—
RSU130,508$114,716,532—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

11 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 20, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-10-27Sale—437$912.11159,180
2026-10-27Sale—9,181$910.46161,999
2026-10-27Sale—2,382$911.49159,617
2026-10-23Exercise or conversion derivative—109,896—0
2026-10-23Exercise or conversion—109,896—231,953
2026-10-23Tax withholding—60,773$891.30171,180
2026-05-01Sale—2,310$930.43138,422
2026-05-01Sale—1,160$931.25137,262

The 8 most recent of 11 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 Goldman Sachs discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$216,480,228$307,889—
Involuntary termination without cause—$85,426,278$307,889—
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Death—$216,480,228$307,889—
Disability—$216,480,228$307,889—

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

Goldman Sachs’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
David Solomon · this pageChairman and CEO$118,891,684
John WaldronPresident and COO$118,135,674
Denis ColemanCFO$26,564,925
Kathryn RuemmlerCLO and General Counsel$22,288,701
John RogersExecutive Vice President$16,721,240

Board service

Goldman Sachs board · FY2023–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Goldman Sachs pays directors a $100,000 cash retainer and $350,000 in equity. As stated in Goldman Sachs's FY2025 proxy.

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