Former Chief Financial Officer · Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. (ARQT)

David Topper

A named executive officer of Arcutis Biotherapeutics in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,946,733

FY2024: $5,311,203

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 21, 2026 (DEF 14A).

David Topper compensation by year

Arcutis Biotherapeutics Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Arcutis Biotherapeutics reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$364,792$196,458
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$1,854,200$465,460
Option awards$2,772,155$865,044
Non-equity incentive$296,640$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$23,416$419,771
Total$5,311,203$1,946,733

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 21, 2026, accession 0001787306-26-000028, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$5.3M
$1.9M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU110,000$1,532,300—
RSU30,000$417,900—
Option310,000—$12.34
Option212,750—$3.64

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Arcutis Biotherapeutics’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Todd Franklin WatanabePresident and Chief Executive Officer$7,223,065
L. Todd EdwardsExecutive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer$3,030,337
Patrick BurnettExecutive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer$3,016,508
Masaru MatsudaExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,118,203
David Topper · this pageFormer Chief Financial Officer$1,946,733
Latha VairavanSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$1,924,780

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Arcutis Biotherapeutics's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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