Senior Vice President, Corporate Restaurants and Chief People Officer · Wingstop Inc. (WING)

Donnie Upshaw

A named executive officer of Wingstop in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 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

$2,032,618

FY2024: $2,354,767

5th of 5 named executive officers at Wingstop by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 2, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Donnie Upshaw compensation by year

Wingstop Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Wingstop reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$342,307$420,481$487,000$511,943$530,596
Bonus$50,000$0$0$100,000$0
Stock awards$655,142$950,321$725,207$1,017,736$1,040,104
Option awards$93,309$112,930$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$330,000$570,000$570,000$600,000$427,200
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0
All other$65,313$98,098$127,187$125,088$34,718
Total$1,536,071$2,151,830$1,909,394$2,354,767$2,032,618

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Wingstop Inc. DEF 14A filed April 2, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-140360, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Wingstop Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-140360. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 2, 2026.

$1.5M
$2.2M
$1.9M
$2.4M
$2.0M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU2,567$1,662,967—
PSU1,647$1,063,591—
PSU2,859$735,706—
RSU1,906$490,471—
RSU732$189,083—
RSU571$147,963—

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

Wingstop’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael SkipworthPresident and Chief Executive Officer$35,288,595
Alex KaleidaSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$2,563,832
Rajneesh KapoorSenior Vice President, President of International$2,161,423
Marisa CaronaSenior Vice President, Chief U.S. Franchise Operations and Development Officer$2,103,248
Donnie Upshaw · this pageSenior Vice President, Corporate Restaurants and Chief People Officer$2,032,618

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