Chief Executive Officer and President · SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. (SMA)

Herbert Schwartz

A named executive officer of SmartStop Self Storage REIT in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Velarion Intel: free for 3 days, no card →

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$4,846,581

FY2024: $5,109,915

1st of 5 named executive officers at SmartStop Self Storage Reit by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for SmartStop Self Storage REIT, FY2025

See an example →

What this number hides

The filing gives the total. SmartStop Self Storage REIT’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 22, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Free

Get Herbert Schwartz’s pay history as a PDF, right here and by email

The PDF adds what this page leaves out: up to 10 years of pay, a peer comparison, and the board on one page. Two emails at most, nothing else.

Also free: The Pay Desk, the weekly executive pay briefing.

Or track Herbert Schwartz and every company like it: Velarion Intel, free for 3 days, no card →

Herbert Schwartz compensation by year

SmartStop Self Storage REIT Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SmartStop Self Storage REIT reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$625,000$625,000$625,000$625,000
Bonus$0$0$191,000$0
Stock awards$1,900,000$3,800,000$3,800,000$3,800,000
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$961,875$303,750$479,318$406,456
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$12,997$13,997$14,597$15,125
Total$3,499,872$4,742,747$5,109,915$4,846,581

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 22, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-170634, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-170634. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 22, 2026.

$3.5M
$4.7M
$5.1M
$4.8M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU47,143$1,458,604—
RSU36,636$1,133,518—
PSU24,060$744,416—
RSU23,488$726,703—
PSU23,138$715,874—
RSU11,965$370,182—

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

SmartStop Self Storage REIT’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Herbert Schwartz · this pageChief Executive Officer and President$4,846,581
Joe RobinsonChief Operations Officer$1,823,131
James BarryChief Financial Officer$1,811,961
Wayne JohnsonChief Investment Officer$1,730,117
Michael TerjungChief Accounting Officer$1,513,845

Board service

SmartStop Self Storage REIT board · FY2024–FY2025
Director compensation in US dollars, as SmartStop Self Storage REIT reports it. Most recent year first; a dash means the company reported no figure in that column.
Fiscal yearCash feesStock awardsOption awardsOtherTotal
FY2025$0$0$0$266$266
FY2024$0$0$0$245$245

Each year as the company reported it in SmartStop Self Storage REIT's director compensation table. Totals are the company's own disclosed totals.

How this board is paid

Company policy: SmartStop Self Storage REIT pays directors a $65,000 cash retainer and $100,000 in equity. As stated in SmartStop Self Storage REIT's FY2025 proxy.

The full SmartStop Self Storage REIT compensation record

free company brief

This page is one person within SmartStop Self Storage REIT's record. The company brief lists every named executive, each linking to their own page.

Compensation, the day it’s disclosed

The CompBrief Daily Digest lists the newest executive and director compensation disclosures as companies file them. Or order SmartStop Self Storage REIT's full Executive Compensation Report with peer benchmarking.

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 SmartStop Self Storage REIT'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.

Herbert Schwartz's compensation dossier