Chief Operating Officer · Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CRNX)

Jeff Knight

A named executive officer of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$3,826,671

FY2024: $4,122,990

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

Jeff Knight compensation by year

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Crinetics Pharmaceuticals reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$459,167$490,000$511,667
Bonus——$0
Stock awards$579,380$1,000,730$1,584,980
Option awards$1,125,670$2,407,290$1,487,018
Non-equity incentive$195,145$221,970$236,006
Pension and deferred compensation——$0
All other$3,000$3,000$7,000
Total$2,362,362$4,122,990$3,826,671

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001658247-26-000030, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.4M
$4.1M
$3.8M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU43,000$2,001,650—
RSU17,250$802,988—
RSU14,750$686,613—
RSU1,238$57,629—
Option51,459—$36.86
Option28,438—$19.64
Option963—$20.02
Option48,938—$43.51

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Crinetics Pharmaceuticals discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$618,000$0$19,503$637,503
Death—$0—$236,006
Disability—$0—$236,006
Change in control and involuntary termination$978,500$4,987,103$26,004$5,991,607
Change in control, no termination—$4,987,103—$4,987,103

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Crinetics Pharmaceuticals’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
R. Scott StruthersPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Director$11,628,959
Tobin SchilkeChief Financial Officer$4,357,893
Dana PizzutiChief Medical and Development Officer$3,910,331
Stephen BetzChief Scientific Officer$3,827,148
Jeff Knight · this pageChief Operating Officer$3,826,671
Marc WilsonFormer Chief Financial Officer$3,255,392

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