Chief Executive Officer · Riot Platforms, Inc. (RIOT)

Jason Les

A named executive officer of Riot Platforms in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 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

$3,460,222

FY2024: $83,532,328

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Riot Platforms by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 30, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Jason Les compensation by year

Riot Platforms Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Riot Platforms reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$631,887$679,757$963,807$1,334,219$1,584,337
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$20,155,500$20,297,175$10,991,245$79,263,056$0
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,085,963$511,225$1,496,478$2,893,957$1,827,581
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0
All other$3,518$12,111$39,060$41,096$48,304
Total$21,876,868$21,500,269$13,490,590$83,532,328$3,460,222

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Riot Platforms, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-053098, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Riot Platforms, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-053098. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

$21.9M
$21.5M
$13.5M
$83.5M
$3.5M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU5,000,000$63,350,000—
PSU753,768$9,550,241—
PSU369,640$4,683,339—
RSU251,256$3,183,414—
RSU61,608$780,573—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

4 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 30, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-07-31Tax withholding—2,896,921$20.174,944,637
2026-07-01Tax withholding—101,015$23.967,841,558
2026-06-22Sale10b5-162,703$30.091,263,556
2026-05-11Sale10b5-1175,000$25.191,326,259

The 4 most recent of 4 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Riot Platforms discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Voluntary resignation$0$0—$0
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$3,068,584$33,171,667—$36,240,251
Involuntary for cause$0$0—$0
Change in control, no termination$0$0—$0
Change in control and involuntary termination$7,543,602$67,625,996—$75,169,598
Involuntary termination without cause$3,068,584$33,171,667—$36,240,251
Death$1,534,292$32,215,833—$33,750,125
Disability$1,534,292$32,215,833—$33,750,125

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Riot Platforms, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Riot Platforms’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Jonathan GibbsFormer Chief Data Center Officer$12,674,783
Stephen HowellChief Operating Officer$7,200,726
Jason Les · this pageChief Executive Officer$3,460,222
Benjamin YiExecutive Chairman$3,452,334
Colin YeeChief Financial Officer$1,133,655

Board service

Riot Platforms board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Riot Platforms pays directors a $100,000 cash retainer. As stated in Riot Platforms's FY2025 proxy.

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How this record is built

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