Chief Legal Officer · Rithm Capital Corp. (RITM)

David Zeiden

A named executive officer of Rithm Capital 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,918,118

FY2024: $1,816,370

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3 named officers on file for Rithm Capital, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 9, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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David Zeiden compensation by year

Rithm Capital Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Rithm Capital reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$500,000$500,000
Bonus$887,074$907,224
Stock awards$409,972$499,998
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0—
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0
All other$19,324$10,896
Total$1,816,370$1,918,118

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Rithm Capital Corp. DEF 14A filed April 9, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-041536, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Rithm Capital Corp. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-041536. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 9, 2026.

$1.8M
$1.9M
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU46,375$597,652—
RSU43,462$473,736—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Rithm Capital discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$0$926,021$0$926,021
Involuntary termination without cause$0$926,021$0$926,021
Change in control and involuntary termination$0$962,873$0$962,873
Death$0$1,027,982$0$1,027,982
Disability$0$1,027,982$0$1,027,982
Change in control and resignation for good reason$0$962,873$0$962,873

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Rithm Capital Corp.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Rithm Capital’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael NierenbergChairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer and President$20,450,903
Nicola SantoroChief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer$2,810,902
David Zeiden · this pageChief Legal Officer$1,918,118

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