Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President · QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC (DGX)

James Davis

A named executive officer of QUEST DIAGNOSTICS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2017 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

$15,498,479

FY2024: $14,404,862

1st of 5 named executive officers at Quest Diagnostics by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for QUEST DIAGNOSTICS, FY2025

See an example →

What this number hides

The filing gives the total. QUEST DIAGNOSTICS’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 6, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Free

Get James Davis’s full pay file as a PDF — free

More than this page: up to 10 years of James’s pay history, a side-by-side peer comparison, and a one-page board summary — the whole file, yours now and by email.

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

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

James Davis compensation by year

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as QUEST DIAGNOSTICS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2017FY2018FY2019FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$590,000$590,000$590,000$805,769$1,175,000$1,250,000$1,250,000
Bonus———$0—$0$0
Stock awards$1,320,151$1,320,103$1,230,129$8,542,446$7,290,745$8,239,724$8,762,861
Option awards$879,852$879,899$859,913$1,249,946$2,499,848$2,843,630$2,999,873
Non-equity incentive$430,110$225,616$402,097$1,082,853$1,361,531$1,811,250$2,205,844
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0—$0$0
All other$50,132$51,006$40,781$202,012$346,710$260,258$279,901
Total$3,270,245$3,066,624$3,122,920$11,883,027$12,673,834$14,404,862$15,498,479

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC DEF 14A filed April 6, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-013356, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the QUEST DIAGNOSTICS INC filed document, accession 0001140361-26-013356. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 6, 2026.

$3.3M
$3.1M
$3.1M
$11.9M
$12.7M
$14.4M
$15.5M
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU88,676$15,387,946—
PSU67,802$11,765,681—
RSU57,467$9,972,249—
RSU18,149$3,149,396—
RSU14,834$2,574,144—
Option61,853—$127.81
Option69,633—$165.30
Option22,986—$143.33

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

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
James Davis · this pageChairman, Chief Executive Officer and President$15,498,479
Sam SamadExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$4,427,141
Catherine DohertyExecutive Vice President, Regional Businesses$3,562,946
Karthik KuppusamySenior Vice President, Clinical Solutions$2,579,823
Michael PrevoznikSenior Vice President and General Counsel$2,563,593

Board service

QUEST DIAGNOSTICS board · FY2022–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: QUEST DIAGNOSTICS pays directors a $115,000 cash retainer and $210,000 in RSUs. As stated in QUEST DIAGNOSTICS's FY2025 proxy.

Committees

Executive

The full QUEST DIAGNOSTICS compensation record

free company brief

This page is one person within QUEST DIAGNOSTICS's record. The company brief lists every named executive, each linking to their own page.

Peer companies

named in the QUEST DIAGNOSTICS proxy · each links to its own free brief

Compensation, the day it’s disclosed

The CompBrief Daily Digest lists the newest executive and director compensation disclosures as companies file them. Or order QUEST DIAGNOSTICS'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 QUEST DIAGNOSTICS'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.

Order DGX

Add the email the receipt and the PDF go to, then press the report you want. Each button opens its own card payment on Stripe.

Receipt, invoice, and report delivery. Guest checkout, no account required, secure payment by Stripe.

James Davis's compensation dossier