Senior Vice President and Chief Transaction Officer · National Health Investors Inc. (NHI)

Kristin Gaines

A named executive officer of National Health Investors 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

$1,326,552

FY2024: $971,943

5th of 5 named executive officers at National Health Investors by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 3, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Kristin Gaines compensation by year

National Health Investors Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as National Health Investors reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$160,000$168,000$175,000$200,788$206,000$216,300$225,000
Bonus$40,000$100,000$80,000$355,000$83,667$0$0
Stock awards$0$0$0$0$197,200$173,280$293,360
Option awards$181,513$287,003$224,703$641,565$283,204$197,013$235,192
Non-equity incentive$300,000$300,000$300,000$0$271,333$375,000$562,500
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0—
All other$7,950$8,100$8,250$9,150$9,900$10,350$10,500
Total$689,463$863,103$787,953$1,206,503$1,051,304$971,943$1,326,552

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: National Health Investors Inc. DEF 14A filed April 3, 2026, accession 0000877860-26-000098, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the National Health Investors Inc. filed document, accession 0000877860-26-000098. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 3, 2026.

$689K
$863K
$788K
$1.2M
$1.1M
$972K
$1.3M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU8,800$672,056—
Option16,667—$73.34
Option8,334—$57.76

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

National Health Investors’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
D. Eric MendelsohnPresident and CEO$3,652,795
John SpaidExecutive Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$2,180,555
Kevin PascoeExecutive Vice President of Investments and Chief Investment Officer$1,987,215
David TravisSenior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer$1,438,600
Kristin Gaines · this pageSenior Vice President and Chief Transaction Officer$1,326,552

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