Former Executive Vice President, COO and Interim Group President, Medical Products & Therapies · BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC (BAX)

Heather Knight

A named executive officer of BAXTER INTERNATIONAL in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 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

$6,074,548

FY2024: $6,596,490

4th of 9 named executive officers at Baxter International by FY2025 total.

9 named officers on file for BAXTER INTERNATIONAL, FY2025

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

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Heather Knight compensation by year

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as BAXTER INTERNATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$791,507$883,333$747,123
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$2,395,122$4,607,152$4,018,281
Option awards$838,466$0$1,267,349
Non-equity incentive$771,091$1,039,500$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$64,057$66,505$41,795
Total$4,860,243$6,596,490$6,074,548

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC DEF 14A filed March 23, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-020330, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC filed document, accession 0001628280-26-020330. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 23, 2026.

$4.9M
$6.6M
$6.1M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU108,957$3,177,200—
RSU45,180$1,317,450—
RSU15,060$439,160—
RSU3,817$111,292—
Option20,979—$75.75
Option59,701—$39.06
Option8,269—$85.23
Option21,780—$77.15
Option20,000—$75.84
Option18,861—$74.73

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

BAXTER INTERNATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Andrew HiderPresident and CEO$29,805,182
Joel GradeFormer Executive Vice President and CFO$8,209,568
José AlmeidaFormer Chair of the Board, President and CEO$7,666,044
Heather Knight · this pageFormer Executive Vice President, COO and Interim Group President, Medical Products & Therapies$6,074,548
Reazur RasulExecutive Vice President and Group President, Healthcare Systems & Technologies$5,246,214
Alok SonigFormer Executive Vice President and Group President, Pharmaceuticals$5,239,273
Brent ShaferNon-Executive Chair and Former Executive Chair and Interim CEO$3,809,993
David RosenbloomExecutive Vice President and General Counsel$3,794,164
Cecilia SorianoGroup President, Infusion Therapies & Technologies and Pharmaceuticals$2,654,841

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