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

James Lynch

A named executive officer of CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,563,285

FY2024: $1,442,429

2nd of 5 named executive officers at California Water Service by FY2025 total.

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

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James Lynch compensation by year

CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$463,076$488,294
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$229,840$272,015
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$334,640$275,684
Pension and deferred compensation$374,437$479,826
All other$40,436$47,466
Total$1,442,429$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.

How this page was built: the CALIFORNIA WATER SERVICE GROUP filed document, accession 0001104659-26-040708. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 8, 2026.

$1.4M
$1.6M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

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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