Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (APD)

Melissa Schaeffer

A named executive officer of Air Products & Chemicals in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 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

$4,708,479

FY2024: $3,730,920

5th of 7 named executive officers at Air Products & Chemicals by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for Air Products & Chemicals, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 11, 2025 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Melissa Schaeffer compensation by year

Air Products & Chemicals Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Air Products & Chemicals reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$380,513$550,000$626,923$707,692$782,692
Bonus$0$0$0$0$648,000
Stock awards$307,263$1,499,772$2,816,085$2,456,375$3,204,915
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$210,900$622,875$936,000$473,425$0
Pension and deferred compensation$210$329$425$253$361
All other$35,778$104,268$72,467$93,175$72,511
Total$934,664$2,777,244$4,451,900$3,730,920$4,708,479

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. DEF 14A filed December 11, 2025, accession 0001308179-25-000643, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. filed document, accession 0001308179-25-000643. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 11, 2025.

$935K
$2.8M
$4.5M
$3.7M
$4.7M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU12,830$3,498,998—
RSU10,680$2,912,650—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed December 11, 2025)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-01Sale—2,714$303.7614,212

The 1 most recent of 1 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 →

Air Products & Chemicals’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Seifi GhasemiFormer Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer$23,418,863
Eduardo MenezesChief Executive Officer$11,809,287
Francesco MaionePresident, Americas and Global Helium & Rare Gases$6,368,237
Sean MajorFormer Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$4,712,266
Melissa Schaeffer · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$4,708,479
Victoria BrifoExecutive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Corporate Communications and Corporate Relations$2,417,520
Brian GalovichExecutive Vice President and Chief Information Officer$2,326,998

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