Former President and Chief Executive Officer · Fortive Corp (FTV)

James Lico

A named executive officer of Fortive in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 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

$10,495,092

FY2024: $18,313,164

3rd of 8 named executive officers at Fortive by FY2025 total.

8 named officers on file for Fortive, FY2025

See an example →

What this number hides

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

Velarion Intel · free for 3 days · no card

See how Fortive’s whole pay program stands against its peers

  • Fortive’s company dashboard and its AI-written, board-ready brief, every figure cited to the filing
  • Peer-group intelligence, custom peer reruns and governance screens
  • Every other company we cover, with alerts when they file
Start my free trial on FTV→

No card. Nothing is charged, and the trial ends on its own.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Free

Get James Lico’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 James Lico and every company like it: Velarion Intel, free for 3 days, no card →

James Lico compensation by year

Fortive Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Fortive reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$919,834$1,036,542$1,050,000$1,086,546$896,936$1,207,887$1,250,000$1,250,000$1,274,038$1,250,000
Bonus$150,000$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$3,855,197$3,956,651$5,031,778$5,651,302$5,490,084$7,891,487$8,535,920$9,617,124$10,156,071$5,663,576
Option awards$3,720,788$3,482,464$4,328,248$4,722,482$4,134,823$3,865,747$2,837,891$3,608,064$3,921,979$1,887,129
Non-equity incentive$1,702,563$2,532,600$2,960,948$2,206,116$2,632,476$3,139,750$3,460,145$2,757,375$2,380,700$1,159,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$244,406$387,842$350,019$475,031$469,744$493,848$527,234$576,601$580,376$535,387
Total$10,592,788$11,396,099$13,720,993$14,141,477$13,624,063$16,598,719$16,611,190$17,809,164$18,313,164$10,495,092

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Fortive Corp DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-189078, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Fortive Corp filed document, accession 0001193125-26-189078. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 29, 2026.

$10.6M
$11.4M
$13.7M
$14.1M
$13.6M
$16.6M
$16.6M
$17.8M
$18.3M
$10.5M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU272,750$15,058,505—
PSU71,119$3,926,472—
Option190,175—$48.77
Option83,775—$57.83
Option159,886—$62.07
Option94,486—$47.40

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

Fortive’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Mark OkerstromSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$21,413,439
Olumide SoroyePresident and Chief Executive Officer$14,405,012
James Lico · this pageFormer President and Chief Executive Officer$10,495,092
Stacey WalkerFormer Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer$5,441,113
Tamara NewcombeFormer President and CEO, Precision Technologies$5,395,558
Peter UnderwoodSenior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer$5,091,771
Jonathan SchwarzFormer Senior Vice President, Strategic and Corporate Development$4,407,044
Charles McLaughlinFormer Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$1,116,110

Board service

Fortive board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Fortive pays directors a $105,000 cash retainer and $200,000 in RSUs/Options. As stated in Fortive's FY2025 proxy.

James Lico's compensation dossier, Fortive

You have read James Lico's totals and holdings. The dossier adds each equity grant Fortive disclosed for James Lico and Fortive's own disclosed peer group, where the company discloses them, with every row in a PDF and a CSV cited to its filing.

See an example →

The full Fortive compensation record

free company brief

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

Peer companies

named in the Fortive 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 Fortive'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 Fortive'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 FTV

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 Lico's compensation dossier