Executive Vice President Operations · SAIA INC (SAIA)

Patrick Sugar

A named executive officer of SAIA 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

$2,088,241

FY2024: $1,874,271

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Saia by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 16, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Patrick Sugar compensation by year

SAIA Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as SAIA reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$375,361$425,016$491,573$511,680$542,400
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$546,298$482,700$1,218,358$1,290,893$1,464,553
Option awards$70,799$120,601$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$404,653$391,823$501,826$0$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0
All other$41,566$53,608$68,854$71,698$81,288
Total$1,438,677$1,473,748$2,280,611$1,874,271$2,088,241

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: SAIA INC DEF 14A filed March 16, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-107135, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the SAIA INC filed document, accession 0001193125-26-107135. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 16, 2026.

$1.4M
$1.5M
$2.3M
$1.9M
$2.1M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU7,792$2,544,244—
RSU2,905$948,541—

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

SAIA’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Frederick HolzgrefePresident & Chief Executive Officer$6,312,241
Raymond RamuExecutive Vice President & Chief Customer Officer$2,371,684
Patrick Sugar · this pageExecutive Vice President Operations$2,088,241
Matthew BattehExecutive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer$1,499,792
Anthony NorwoodExecutive Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer$1,140,466

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