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Senior Vice President and Chief Loan Operations Officer · MFA FINANCIAL, INC. (MFA)

Lori Samuels

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Lori Samuels as a named executive officer of MFA FINANCIAL; 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

$1,579,018

5th of 5 named executive officers at MFA Financial by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for MFA FINANCIAL, FY2025

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

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Lori Samuels compensation by year

MFA FINANCIAL Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as MFA FINANCIAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$400,000
Bonus$565,000
Stock awards$600,018
All other$14,000
Total$1,579,018

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MFA FINANCIAL, INC. DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-015388, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the MFA FINANCIAL, INC. filed document, accession 0001140361-26-015388. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 17, 2026.

MFA FINANCIAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Craig KnutsonChief Executive Officer$7,079,634
Bryan WulfsohnPresident and Chief Investment Officer$4,419,509
Michael RoperSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,210,024
Harold SchwartzSenior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$1,887,013
Lori Samuels · this pageSenior Vice President and Chief Loan Operations Officer$1,579,018

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