Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer · WELLTOWER INC. (WELL)

John Burkart

A named executive officer of WELLTOWER 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

$100,240,700

Includes a multi-year grant valued at $90,704,221, $47,468,722 of it performance-based. The filing says: “the amounts shown under the 10-Year ECAP column, below, represent ten years of each NEO's compensation ... any Performance-Based LTIP Units that do not become Vested LTIP Units based on achievement of the predetermined performance milestones during the Performance Period will be forfeited ... subject to significant restrictions on transferability and redemption through at least October 2030”. Total without the grant: $9,536,479.

FY2024: $6,034,915

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 10, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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John Burkart compensation by year

WELLTOWER Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as WELLTOWER reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$273,076$600,000$625,000$625,000$650,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$903,391$2,584,822$3,454,999$3,509,268$97,264,200
Option awards$0$900,000$450,004$0$0
Non-equity incentive$634,438$1,010,550$1,485,938$1,864,397$2,275,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0
All other$0$26,800$29,500$36,250$51,500
Total$1,810,905$5,122,172$6,045,441$6,034,915$100,240,700

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: WELLTOWER INC. DEF 14A filed April 10, 2026, accession 0000766704-26-000014, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the WELLTOWER INC. filed document, accession 0000766704-26-000014. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 10, 2026.

$1.8M
$5.1M
$6.0M
$6.0M
$100.2M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU285,649$53,019,311—
RSU131,332$24,376,533—
RSU129,628$24,060,253—
RSU64,514$11,974,444—
RSU60,180$11,170,010—
RSU10,950$2,393,123—
RSU15,387$1,572,398—
RSU7,549$1,401,170—
RSU10,725$1,065,422—
RSU2,955$548,478—

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

WELLTOWER’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Shankh MitraChief Executive Officer$821,090,355
Nikhil ChaudhriCo-President and Chief Investment Officer$185,810,445
Timothy McHughCo-President and Chief Financial Officer$166,955,140
John Burkart · this pageVice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer$100,240,700
Matthew McQueenChief Legal Officer and General Counsel$93,458,297

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