Chief Financial Officer · Velocity Financial, Inc. (VEL)

Mark Szczepaniak

A named executive officer of Velocity Financial in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2020 to FY2025. 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

$2,419,250

FY2024: $2,353,163

2nd of 3 named executive officers at Velocity Financial by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 10, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Mark Szczepaniak compensation by year

Velocity Financial Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Velocity Financial reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$325,000$375,000$393,750$393,750$393,750$393,750
Bonus$165,000$0$0$0$0$118,750
Stock awards$0$422,400$378,900$433,124$767,813$700,000
Option awards$392,000$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive—$405,000$639,844$767,813$1,181,250$1,181,250
Pension and deferred compensation—$0$0——$0
All other$8,848$8,850$9,352$9,900$10,350$25,500
Total$890,848$1,211,250$1,421,846$1,604,587$2,353,163$2,419,250

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Velocity Financial, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 10, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-150488, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Velocity Financial, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-150488. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 10, 2026.

$891K
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$2.4M
$2.4M
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FY21
FY22
FY23
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FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU24,205$502,496—
PSU21,656$449,579—
RSU18,597$386,074—
PSU18,597$386,074—
RSU16,137$335,004—
RSU7,219$149,866—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

7 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 10, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-05Sale10b5-12,000$18.0062,400
2026-09-10Sale10b5-12,000$18.0364,400
2026-08-10Sale10b5-12,000$18.1664,400
2026-08-06Sale10b5-1400$18.0066,400
2026-07-28Sale10b5-1400$18.0068,000
2026-06-26Sale10b5-11,573$18.0768,400
2026-05-01Sale10b5-11,573$19.3069,973

The 7 most recent of 7 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Velocity Financial’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Christopher FarrarChief Executive Officer$6,564,245
Mark Szczepaniak · this pageChief Financial Officer$2,419,250
Jeffrey TaylorExecutive Vice President, Capital Markets$2,157,013

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