Managing Partner · PJT Partners Inc. (PJT)

Ji-Yeun Lee

A named executive officer of PJT Partners 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,526,443

FY2024: $4,922,444

1st of 4 named executive officers at PJT Partners by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Ji-Yeun Lee compensation by year

PJT Partners Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as PJT Partners reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000$1,000,000
Bonus$2,850,200$1,562,500$2,037,500$1,867,500$6,867,500$1,867,500$1,852,500$1,847,700$2,223,300$2,328,300
Stock awards$0$1,937,500$1,977,836$1,437,758$1,753,474$1,649,703$1,971,031$1,653,164$1,668,634$2,166,793
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$0$0$15,000$15,000$15,000$15,000$16,595$29,620$30,510$31,350
Total$3,850,200$4,500,000$5,030,336$4,320,258$9,635,974$4,532,203$4,840,126$4,530,484$4,922,444$5,526,443

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: PJT Partners Inc. DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-028424, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the PJT Partners Inc. filed document, accession 0001628280-26-028424. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 29, 2026.

$3.9M
$4.5M
$5.0M
$4.3M
$9.6M
$4.5M
$4.8M
$4.5M
$4.9M
$5.5M
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FY17
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FY20
FY21
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FY25
SalaryBonusStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU65,082$10,881,658—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

3 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 29, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-05Exercise or conversion derivative—15,000$153.72684,849
2026-09-16Grant or award derivative—30$0.0018,742
2026-06-17Grant or award derivative—30$0.0018,712

The 3 most recent of 3 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 PJT Partners discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control, no termination—$10,881,658—$10,881,658
Disability—$10,881,658—$10,881,658
Involuntary termination without cause—$10,881,658—$10,881,658
Involuntary for cause—$0—$0
Death—$10,881,658—$10,881,658

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

PJT Partners’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ji-Yeun Lee · this pageManaging Partner$5,526,443
Helen MeatesChief Financial Officer$4,538,455
David TravinGeneral Counsel$3,148,573
Paul TaubmanChairman and Chief Executive Officer$1,031,350

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