Former President and Chief Financial Officer · Clear Secure, Inc. (YOU)

Kenneth Cornick

A named executive officer of Clear Secure 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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$156,112

FY2024: $4,667,074

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 22, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Kenneth Cornick compensation by year

Clear Secure Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Clear Secure reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$425,000$424,999$500,000$500,000$125,000
Bonus—$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$29,821,502$0$0$3,749,996$0
Option awards—$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$119,000$246,279$529,155$415,078$0
Pension and deferred compensation—$0$0$0$0
All other$2,000$2,000$2,000$2,000$31,112
Total$30,367,502$673,278$1,031,155$4,667,074$156,112

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Clear Secure, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 22, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-170704, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$30.4M
$673K
$1.0M
$4.7M
$156K
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU1,802,786$63,241,733—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Clear Secure discloses, by trigger · FY2024
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Death$0$5,189,605$0$5,189,605
Change in control and involuntary termination—$5,189,605—$5,189,605
Change in control and resignation for good reason—$5,189,605—$5,189,605

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Clear Secure, Inc.'s FY2024 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Clear Secure’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michael BarkinPresident$13,518,345
Caryn Seidman BeckerChairman and Chief Executive Officer$11,563,694
Jennifer HsuChief Financial Officer$3,254,984
Lynn HaalandFormer General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer$3,005,699
Kyle McLaughlinExecutive Vice President, Aviation$2,691,546
Jonathan SchlegelChief Security Officer$475,082
Kenneth Cornick · this pageFormer President and Chief Financial Officer$156,112

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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 Clear Secure'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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