Chief Financial Officer · PJT Partners Inc. (PJT)

Helen Meates

A named executive officer of PJT Partners in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2020 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,538,455

FY2024: $3,962,525

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Helen Meates compensation by year

PJT Partners Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as PJT Partners reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$500,000$300,000$500,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000
Bonus$1,667,500$5,750,000$1,652,500$1,422,100$1,847,700$1,937,700
Stock awards$1,332,500$2,300,000$1,347,500$1,065,900$1,084,315$1,569,405
Option awards$0—$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0———$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0—$0$0$0$0
All other$0$39,490$0$0$30,510$31,350
Total$3,500,000$8,389,490$3,500,000$3,488,000$3,962,525$4,538,455

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: PJT Partners Inc. DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-028424, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.5M
$8.4M
$3.5M
$3.5M
$4.0M
$4.5M
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU49,073$8,204,948—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 29, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-09-16Grant or award derivative—21$0.0013,403
2026-06-17Grant or award derivative—21$0.0013,382
2026-05-01Sale—8,000$153.1958,466

The 3 most recent of 3 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

PJT Partners’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ji-Yeun LeeManaging Partner$5,526,443
Helen Meates · this pageChief Financial Officer$4,538,455
David TravinGeneral Counsel$3,148,573
Paul TaubmanChairman and Chief Executive Officer$1,031,350

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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 PJT Partners'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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