President and Chief Executive Officer · Spirit Airlines (SAVE)

Edward M. Christie III

FY2023 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Edward M. Christie III as a named executive officer of Spirit Airlines; the record below is that year, complete. 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, FY2023

$6,601,404

1st of 5 named executive officers at Spirit Airlines by FY2023 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 25, 2024 (DEF 14A).

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Edward M. Christie III compensation by year

Spirit Airlines Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Spirit Airlines reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023
Salary$745,833
Bonus$1,771,875
Stock awards$2,912,479
Non-equity incentive$1,134,573
All other$36,644
Total$6,601,404

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Spirit Airlines DEF 14A filed April 25, 2024, accession 0001193125-24-114028, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Spirit Airlines filed document, accession 0001193125-24-114028. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 25, 2024.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2023 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU165,670$2,715,331—
RSU66,210$1,085,182—
RSU17,942$294,069—
PSU16,820$275,680—
PSU13,456$220,544—
RSU8,603$141,003—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Spirit Airlines's FY2023 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Spirit Airlines discloses, by trigger · FY2023
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control, no termination$0$1,771,875$0$1,771,875
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Involuntary termination without cause$1,125,000$0$19,283$2,977,066
Disability$0$2,834,788$0$3,334,788
Death$0$2,834,788$0$3,334,788
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,436,355$4,172,008$19,283$10,460,429

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Spirit Airlines's FY2023 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Spirit Airlines’s named executive officers, FY2023

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2023 total
Edward M. Christie III · this pagePresident and Chief Executive Officer$6,601,404
Scott M. HaralsonExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$3,568,032
John BendoraitisExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$3,099,375
Matthew H. KleinExecutive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer$2,883,219
Rocky B. WigginsSenior Vice President and Chief Information Officer$2,206,849

Board service

Spirit Airlines board · FY2023

How this board is paid

Company policy: Spirit Airlines pays directors a $70,000 cash retainer and $120,000 in RSUs. As stated in Spirit Airlines's FY2023 proxy.

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Spirit Airlines's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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