Chief Financial Officer · Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. (INSP)

Richard Buchholz

A named executive officer of Inspire Medical Systems in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2019 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,707,684

FY2024: $2,824,625

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 20, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Richard Buchholz compensation by year

Inspire Medical Systems Summary Compensation Table · all 7 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Inspire Medical Systems reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$333,373$383,379$411,020$425,406$447,243$457,844$477,989
Bonus$0$0$0$53,176$10,810$0$0
Stock awards$0$0$0$699,882$799,743$1,574,939$1,899,947
Option awards$629,940$1,569,110$0$742,396$835,431$512,342$0
Non-equity incentive$187,523$209,133$240,447$204,620$205,382$270,311$319,488
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0—$0$0
All other$0$0$0$9,150$9,900$9,189$10,260
Total$1,150,836$2,161,622$651,467$2,134,630$2,308,509$2,824,625$2,707,684

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. DEF 14A filed March 20, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-010490, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$1.2M
$2.2M
$651K
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.8M
$2.7M
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
PSU5,388$496,935—
RSU5,076$468,159—
PSU5,076$468,159—
PSU2,401$221,427—
RSU1,796$165,645—
Option5,924—$227.53
Option5,450—$263.16
Option4,376—$194.87
Option17,300—$194.82

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

Inspire Medical Systems’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Timothy HerbertPresident and Chief Executive Officer$7,711,784
Carlton WeatherbyChief Strategy and Growth Officer$2,835,087
Randall BanExecutive Vice President, Patient Access and Therapy Development$2,729,287
Richard Buchholz · this pageChief Financial Officer$2,707,684
Bryan PhillipsSVP, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary$2,702,484

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