Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (BHF)

Ed Spehar

A named executive officer of Brighthouse Financial in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 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

$3,890,477

FY2024: $3,632,704

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Brighthouse Financial by FY2025 total.

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

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Ed Spehar compensation by year

Brighthouse Financial Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Brighthouse Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$253,846$600,000$600,000$600,000$600,000$640,385$665,385
Bonus$597,900—$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$527,260$1,049,968$1,349,944$1,739,915$1,739,996$1,884,943$1,884,930
Option awards$0—$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$546,000$924,000$891,000$1,107,000$1,206,000$955,500$1,157,187
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$79,212$383,243$135,617$148,083$160,301$151,876$182,975
Total$2,004,218$2,957,211$2,976,561$3,594,998$3,706,297$3,632,704$3,890,477

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Brighthouse Financial, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 14, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-154952, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Brighthouse Financial, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-154952. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 14, 2026.

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$3.0M
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$3.6M
$3.7M
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$3.9M
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SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU24,501$1,587,420—
PSU19,069$1,235,481—
RSU18,786$1,217,145—
RSU12,712$823,610—
RSU10,889$705,498—
RSU3,976$257,605—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Brighthouse Financial discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,400,000$5,768,837—$10,390,680
Change in control, no termination—$5,768,837—$5,768,837
Death—$5,768,837—$6,118,837
Involuntary termination without cause$700,000$5,768,837—$8,610,509
Voluntary resignation—$5,768,837—$5,768,837

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

Brighthouse Financial’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Eric SteigerwaltPresident and Chief Executive Officer$10,461,127
Ed Spehar · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$3,890,477
John RosenthalExecutive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer$3,467,726
Myles LambertExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$3,222,219
Allie LinExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$2,685,575

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