SEVP, Chief Operating Officer · Columbia Financial, Inc. (CLBK)

E. Thomas Allen

A named executive officer of Columbia Financial in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. 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, FY2024

$1,254,850

FY2023: $1,656,253

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Columbia Financial by FY2024 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 25, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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E. Thomas Allen compensation by year

Columbia Financial Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Columbia Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$487,000$495,289$505,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$0$249,604$205,552
Option awards$0$83,230$68,490
Non-equity incentive$360,885$93,190$147,097
Pension and deferred compensation$0$662,229$278,855
All other$94,106$72,711$49,856
Total$941,991$1,656,253$1,254,850

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Columbia Financial, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 25, 2025, accession 0001104659-25-039386, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Columbia Financial, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-25-039386. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 25, 2025.

$942K
$1.7M
$1.3M
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU15,659$247,569—
PSU12,466$197,087—
RSU4,155$65,691—
RSU3,480$55,019—
Option11,173—$16.49
Option10,125—$15.94

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

Columbia Financial’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Thomas KemlyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$2,759,021
E. Thomas Allen · this pageSEVP, Chief Operating Officer$1,254,850
Dennis GibneySEVP, Chief Financial Officer$882,556
Allyson SchlesingerSEVP, Head of Consumer Banking$860,392
John KlimowichSEVP, Chief Risk Officer$857,637

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