President and Chief Executive Officer · METLIFE INC (MET)

Michel Khalaf

A named executive officer of METLIFE in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2017 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Velarion Intel: free for 3 days, no card →

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$22,364,273

FY2024: $20,321,179

1st of 5 named executive officers at Metlife by FY2025 total.

5 named officers on file for METLIFE, FY2025

See an example →

What this number hides

The filing gives the total. METLIFE’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 29, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Free

Get Michel Khalaf’s pay history as a PDF, right here and by email

The PDF adds what this page leaves out: up to 10 years of pay, a peer comparison, and the board on one page. Two emails at most, nothing else.

Also free: The Pay Desk, the weekly executive pay briefing.

Or track Michel Khalaf and every company like it: Velarion Intel, free for 3 days, no card →

Michel Khalaf compensation by year

METLIFE Summary Compensation Table · all 9 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as METLIFE reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$740,169$837,492$1,083,333$1,312,500$1,350,000$1,387,500$1,475,000$1,500,000$1,500,000
Bonus$299,988$200,000$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,217,739$2,612,171$6,741,993$7,483,523$8,743,585$10,145,223$11,285,532$11,590,462$14,797,601
Option awards$356,297$410,797$939,921$853,094$1,150,008$1,297,465$1,597,381$1,672,128$0
Non-equity incentive$2,100,000$3,500,000$4,500,000$4,250,000$4,650,000$5,000,000$4,800,000$4,600,000$4,600,000
Pension and deferred compensation$505,499$104,564$1,095,313$1,270,246$449,706$0$1,088,180$636,545$1,095,186
All other$928,324$3,142,476$210,021$264,892$278,074$277,238$279,916$322,044$371,486
Total$6,148,016$10,807,500$14,570,581$15,434,255$16,621,373$18,107,426$20,526,009$20,321,179$22,364,273

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: METLIFE INC DEF 14A filed April 29, 2026, accession 0001099219-26-000026, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the METLIFE INC filed document, accession 0001099219-26-000026. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 29, 2026.

$6.1M
$10.8M
$14.6M
$15.4M
$16.6M
$18.1M
$20.5M
$20.3M
$22.4M
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU505,621$39,913,722—
RSU90,558$7,148,649—
Option30,323—$71.73
Option65,076—$69.16

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

METLIFE’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Michel Khalaf · this pagePresident and Chief Executive Officer$22,364,273
John McCallionEVP, CFO of MetLife, Inc., and Head of MIM$9,417,412
Ramy TadrosRegional President, U.S. Business, and Head of MLH$7,922,350
Bill PappasEVP and Head of Global Technology and Operations$7,919,406
Marlene DebelEVP, Chief Risk Officer of MetLife, Inc., and Head of MII$6,593,728

Board service

METLIFE board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: METLIFE pays directors a $150,000 cash retainer and $175,000 in Shares. As stated in METLIFE's FY2025 proxy.

Committees

Executive

The full METLIFE compensation record

free company brief

This page is one person within METLIFE's record. The company brief lists every named executive, each linking to their own page.

Peer companies

named in the METLIFE proxy · each links to its own free brief

Compensation, the day it’s disclosed

The CompBrief Daily Digest lists the newest executive and director compensation disclosures as companies file them. Or order METLIFE's full Executive Compensation Report with peer benchmarking.

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 METLIFE'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.

Order MET

Add the email the receipt and the PDF go to, then press the report you want. Each button opens its own card payment on Stripe.

Receipt, invoice, and report delivery. Guest checkout, no account required, secure payment by Stripe.

Michel Khalaf's compensation dossier