Former Chief Executive Officer · American Water Works Company, Inc. (AWK)

M. Susan Hardwick

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for M. Susan Hardwick as a named executive officer of American Water Works; 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

$6,327,892

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 24, 2026 (DEF 14A).

M. Susan Hardwick compensation by year

American Water Works Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as American Water Works reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$458,658
Bonus$0
Stock awards$4,817,643
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$1,051,591
Total$6,327,892

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: American Water Works Company, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 24, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-120668, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU49,027$6,398,024—
PSU46,178$6,026,229—
PSU31,519$4,113,230—
RSU11,545$1,506,623—
RSU8,172$1,066,446—
RSU3,118$406,899—

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

American Water Works’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
John GriffithPresident and Chief Executive Officer$7,055,667
Cheryl NortonExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$6,342,406
M. Susan Hardwick · this pageFormer Chief Executive Officer$6,327,892
David BowlerExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,661,931
Stacy MitchellExecutive Vice President and General Counsel$2,210,675
Maureen DuffyExecutive Vice President, Communications and External Affairs$2,089,583
Melanie KennedyFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer$1,592,695

The full American Water Works compensation record

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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 American Water Works'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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