President, International Operated Markets · MCDONALDS Corp. (MCD)

Manuel JM Steijaert

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Manuel JM Steijaert as a named executive officer of MCDONALDS; 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

$4,978,365

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Manuel JM Steijaert compensation by year

MCDONALDS Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as MCDONALDS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$854,456
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,375,084
Option awards$1,375,014
Non-equity incentive$854,131
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$519,680
Total$4,978,365

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: MCDONALDS Corp. DEF 14A filed April 7, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-145548, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments MCDONALDS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Retirement—$3,762,233——
Involuntary termination without cause—$3,066,619——
Change in control, no termination—$4,402,529——

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

MCDONALDS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Christopher KempczinskiChairman, President and CEO$20,574,525
Ian BordenExecutive Vice President and Global CFO$8,589,731
Gillian McDonaldExecutive Vice President, Global Chief Restaurant Experience Officer$6,061,987
Joseph ErlingerPresident, McDonald’s USA$5,726,650
Manuel JM Steijaert · this pagePresident, International Operated Markets$4,978,365

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How this record is built

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