Senior Vice President, Secure Services · The GEO Group (GEO)

Paul Laird

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Paul Laird as a named executive officer of GEO; 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

$1,804,166

6th of 6 named executive officers at GEO by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 19, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Paul Laird compensation by year

GEO Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as GEO reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$600,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$693,813
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$450,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$60,353
Total$1,804,166

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: The GEO Group DEF 14A filed March 19, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-116014, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the The GEO Group filed document, accession 0001193125-26-116014. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 19, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU48,403$780,256—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments GEO discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Resignation for good reason, no change in control———$1,283,264
Voluntary resignation———$0
Involuntary for cause———$0
Involuntary termination without cause———$1,283,264
Retirement———$0

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in The GEO Group's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

GEO’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
George ZoleyChairman & Chief Executive Officer$14,996,950
J. David DonahueFormer Chief Executive Officer$3,257,319
Mark SuchinskiSenior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer$3,011,136
Joe NegronFormer Senior Vice President, Legal Services, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary$1,917,304
Joe FornerSenior Vice President, Legal Services, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary$1,917,304
Paul Laird · this pageSenior Vice President, Secure Services$1,804,166

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