Director, President and Chief Executive Officer · MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP (MATW)

Joseph Bartolacci

A named executive officer of MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL 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

$5,701,016

FY2024: $5,808,360

1st of 5 named executive officers at Matthews International by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 20, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Joseph Bartolacci compensation by year

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$800,267$836,637$874,285$892,223$921,600$943,592$1,006,975$1,037,838$1,080,118$1,108,760
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$3,682,263$4,262,545$3,478,922$2,874,161$2,847,903$3,639,530$3,819,500$4,152,750$4,052,150$3,726,575
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,243,755$1,189,008$965,741$0$747,255$1,815,715$1,161,820$1,170,486$569,452$762,305
Pension and deferred compensation$1,836,921$633,643$1,129,826$3,008,481$1,864,250$284,123$0$76,768$75,404$0
All other$127,315$114,175$116,064$144,664$196,859$130,344$195,070$36,122$31,236$103,376
Total$7,690,521$7,036,008$6,564,838$6,919,529$6,577,867$6,813,304$6,183,365$6,473,964$5,808,360$5,701,016

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP DEF 14A filed January 20, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-015869, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP filed document, accession 0001193125-26-015869. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 20, 2026.

$7.7M
$7.0M
$6.6M
$6.9M
$6.6M
$6.8M
$6.2M
$6.5M
$5.8M
$5.7M
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FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU90,000$2,185,200—
PSU87,480$2,124,014—
PSU60,000$1,456,800—
RSU60,000$1,456,800—
RSU58,320$1,416,010—
RSU40,000$971,200—

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

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Joseph Bartolacci · this pageDirector, President and Chief Executive Officer$5,701,016
Steven NicolaChief Financial Officer and Treasurer$2,035,198
Steven GackenbachExecutive Vice President (Group President, Memorialization)$1,562,662
Brian WaltersExecutive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary$1,357,887
Lee LaneExecutive Vice President (Group President, Industrial Technologies and Matthews Environmental Solutions)$1,124,372

Board service

MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL board · FY2023–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL pays directors a $90,000 cash retainer and $140,000 in equity. As stated in MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL's FY2025 proxy.

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