Executive Vice President · Commerce Bancshares Inc (CBSH)

John Handy

A named executive officer of Commerce Bancshares 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,745,272

FY2024: $1,455,684

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 13, 2026 (DEF 14A).

John Handy compensation by year

Commerce Bancshares Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Commerce Bancshares reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$511,882$527,705
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$507,103$522,476
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$409,386$662,918
Pension and deferred compensation$749$5,109
All other$26,564$27,064
Total$1,455,684$1,745,272

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Commerce Bancshares Inc DEF 14A filed March 13, 2026, accession 0000022356-26-000107, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.5M
$1.7M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU36,687$1,920,198—

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

Commerce Bancshares’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John KemperPresident and CEO$6,498,082
Charles KimExecutive Vice President and CFO$2,052,252
Kevin BarthExecutive Vice President$2,037,072
John Handy · this pageExecutive Vice President$1,745,272
Robert HolmesExecutive Vice President$1,663,981

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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are Commerce Bancshares's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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