Former Chief Executive Officer · USA Rare Earth, Inc. (USAR)

Joshua Ballard

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Joshua Ballard as a named executive officer of USA Rare Earth; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,516,087

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Joshua Ballard compensation by year

USA Rare Earth Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as USA Rare Earth reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$351,346
Bonus$0
Stock awards$4,637,862
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$526,879
Total$5,516,087

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: USA Rare Earth, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 23, 2026, accession 0001213900-26-047155, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU181,984$2,165,610—
RSU90,992$1,082,805—

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

USA Rare Earth’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Barbara HumptonChief Executive Officer$11,704,645
Joshua Ballard · this pageFormer Chief Executive Officer$5,516,087
William Robert Steele Jr.Chief Financial Officer$4,827,271
David KronenfeldFormer Chief Legal Officer$2,242,430

The full USA Rare Earth compensation record

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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 USA Rare Earth'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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