Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer · CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP (CWT)

James Lynch

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for James Lynch as a named executive officer of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,563,285

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 8, 2026 (DEF 14A).

James Lynch compensation by year

CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$488,294
Bonus$0
Stock awards$272,015
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$275,684
Pension and deferred compensation$479,826
All other$47,466
Total$1,563,285

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP DEF 14A filed April 8, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-040708, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU4,188$181,466—
PSU3,016$130,683—
RSU1,653$71,624—
RSU672$29,118—

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

CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Martin KropelnickiChairman, President & Chief Executive Officer$6,875,256
James Lynch · this pageSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer$1,563,285
Shannon DeanSenior Vice President, Customer Service & Chief Sustainability Officer$1,487,450
Michael LuuSenior Vice President, Corporate Services & Chief Risk Officer$1,323,896
Shawn BuntingSenior Vice President, General Counsel & Business Development$1,255,086

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How this record is built

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