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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,952,209

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

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. Open the filing on EDGAR.

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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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 Royal Caribbean'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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