President, Celebrity Cruises · Royal Caribbean Group (RCL)

Laura Hodges Bethge

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Laura Hodges Bethge as a named executive officer of Royal Caribbean; 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,952,209

4th of 5 named executive officers at Royal Caribbean by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Laura Hodges Bethge compensation by year

Royal Caribbean Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Royal Caribbean reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$893,462
Bonus$0
Stock awards$3,200,054
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$1,715,702
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$142,991
Total$5,952,209

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Royal Caribbean Group DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0000884887-26-000017, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the Royal Caribbean Group filed document, accession 0000884887-26-000017. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 17, 2026.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Royal Caribbean discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Disability$0$11,625,386$0$11,625,386
Death$0$11,625,386$0$11,625,386
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,802,000$18,873,574$13,111$22,785,985
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$1,802,000$0$13,111$3,912,411

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Royal Caribbean Group's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Royal Caribbean’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Jason LibertyPresident and Chief Executive Officer$23,978,813
Michael BayleyPresident and CEO, Royal Caribbean$9,434,227
Naftali HoltzChief Financial Officer$7,114,208
Laura Hodges Bethge · this pagePresident, Celebrity Cruises$5,952,209
Harri KulovaaraEVP, Maritime$4,907,645

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