Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer · IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC (IONS)

Elizabeth Hougen

A named executive officer of IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,422,302

FY2024: $5,062,061

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Elizabeth Hougen compensation by year

IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$479,880$499,555$557,541$612,243$700,000$729,750
Bonus$299,925$298,734$262,713$514,284$437,500$831,915
Stock awards$1,289,352$1,663,208$1,662,465$1,253,772$1,734,696$2,300,820
Option awards$1,358,319$1,815,765$1,596,488$494,087$1,058,535$516,808
Non-equity incentive—$63,838——$1,113,441$0
Pension and deferred compensation————$0$0
All other$54,382$63,838$49,121$17,141$17,889$43,009
Total$3,481,858$4,341,100$4,128,329$2,891,527$5,062,061$4,422,302

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC DEF 14A filed April 23, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-016388, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.5M
$4.3M
$4.1M
$2.9M
$5.1M
$4.4M
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU46,500$3,678,615—
RSU24,300$1,922,373—
RSU13,562$1,072,890—
RSU9,730$769,740—
RSU7,750$613,103—
RSU6,750$533,993—
RSU4,139$327,436—
Option31,000—$34.69
Option690—$32.60
Option7,027—$37.58
Option22,500—$52.87

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

IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Brett MoniaChief Executive Officer$13,350,777
Elizabeth Hougen · this pageExecutive Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer$4,422,302
Richard GearyExecutive Vice President, Chief Development Officer$3,331,400
Brian BirchlerExecutive Vice President, Corporate and Development Operations$3,245,054
Eric SwayzeExecutive Vice President, Research$3,233,339
Patrick O'NeilExecutive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel$3,210,608

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