Chief Operations Officer · COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC (CMP)

Patrick Merrin

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Patrick Merrin as a named executive officer of COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL; 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$1,740,271

2nd of 8 named executive officers at Compass Minerals International by FY2025 total.

8 named officers on file for COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed January 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Patrick Merrin compensation by year

COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$335,417
Bonus$0
Stock awards$964,806
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$420,682
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$19,366
Total$1,740,271

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC DEF 14A filed January 23, 2026, accession 0001308179-26-000019, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL INC filed document, accession 0001308179-26-000019. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed January 23, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU33,141$636,307—
PSU14,955$287,136—

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

COMPASS MINERALS INTERNATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Edward Dowling Jr.President and Chief Executive Officer$6,343,575
Patrick Merrin · this pageChief Operations Officer$1,740,271
Mary FrontczakFormer Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Corporate Secretary$1,706,082
Benjamin NicholsChief Sales Officer$1,498,342
Peter FjellmanChief Financial Officer$1,390,138
Jennifer HoodFormer Chief Supply Chain Officer$1,148,794
Jeffrey CatheyFormer Chief Financial Officer$790,198
Amy TillsChief Human Resources Officer$434,578

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