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Fiscal year 2025

James Fish — FY2025 total compensation $19,048,786

James Fish is Chief Executive Officer of Waste Management Inc (WM). The company reported total compensation of $19,048,786 for fiscal year 2025.

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Fiscal year 2025 compensation

Salary$1,486,538
Bonus$0
Stock awards$12,406,478
Option awards$2,400,021
Non-equity incentive plan$2,472,480
Pension and non-qualified deferred compensation
All other compensation$283,269
Total$19,048,786

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed, without adjustment.

Cited to the compensation disclosure Waste Management Inc filed March 31, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-037381.

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Peer context

Peer-group chief executive median$17,231,235
Difference from that median$1,817,551
Percentile within the disclosed peer group54th
Peers with a disclosed figure24

Medians and percentiles are computed across the peer group Waste Management Inc discloses in its own compensation disclosure.

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The other named executive officers of Waste Management Inc

Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
James Fish this pageChief Executive Officer$19,048,786
John MorrisPresident and Chief Operating Officer$7,238,306
Tara HemmerSenior Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer$6,155,151
Devina RankinFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$5,076,093
Rafael CarrascoSenior Vice President Enterprise Strategy; President WM Healthcare Solutions$4,046,614
David ReedExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$1,968,840

The company's named executive officers for fiscal year 2025, and what it reported for each. See the full Waste Management Inc compensation brief.

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The company page

James Fish's compensation sits inside Waste Management Inc's full executive and board picture — the peer group, pay against peers, incentive design and the board itself.

The Waste Management Inc (WM) compensation brief