Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer · W.W. GRAINGER, INC. (GWW)

Deidra Merriwether

A named executive officer of W.W. GRAINGER in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2018 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

$4,189,459

FY2024: $3,746,976

3rd of 5 named executive officers at W.W. Grainger by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 10, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Deidra Merriwether compensation by year

W.W. GRAINGER Summary Compensation Table · all 8 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as W.W. GRAINGER reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$448,922$469,491$523,885$646,384$668,750$693,836$718,784$743,836
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$293,843$221,411$523,887$1,236,411$1,726,159$2,000,793$2,224,167$2,656,087
Option awards$210,209$158,748$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$305,749$204,844$356,160$830,700$1,075,275$873,905$703,250$697,500
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$100,035$80,479$61,577$64,835$89,944$110,883$100,775$92,036
Total$1,358,758$1,134,972$1,465,509$2,778,330$3,560,128$3,679,417$3,746,976$4,189,459

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: W.W. GRAINGER, INC. DEF 14A filed March 10, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-025575, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the W.W. GRAINGER, INC. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-025575. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 10, 2026.

$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$2.8M
$3.6M
$3.7M
$3.7M
$4.2M
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU2,722$2,746,634—
PSU2,210$2,230,001—
RSU1,361$1,373,317—
PSU1,327$1,339,009—
RSU737$743,670—
RSU492$496,453—
Option2,339—$311.26

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

32 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed March 10, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-04-02Sale10b5-140$1102.2611,909
2026-04-02Sale10b5-140$1110.0811,829
2026-04-02Sale10b5-140$1107.7711,869
2026-04-02Sale10b5-180$1097.2711,949
2026-04-02Sale10b5-1280$1117.8310,781
2026-04-02Sale10b5-140$1119.7310,581
2026-04-02Sale10b5-140$1122.3910,541
2026-04-02Sale10b5-1280$1112.4111,549

The 8 most recent of 32 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 →

W.W. GRAINGER’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
D.G. MacphersonChairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer$11,609,508
Melanie TintoSenior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer$4,954,341
Deidra Merriwether · this pageSenior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer$4,189,459
Paige RobbinsSenior Vice President & President Grainger Business Unit$3,717,454
Nancy Berardinelli-KrantzSenior Vice President & Chief Legal Officer$2,934,749

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