Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board · RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ)

Robert L. Johnson

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Robert L. Johnson as a named executive officer of RLJ Lodging Trust; 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.

Velarion Intel: free for 3 days, no card →

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,794,016

3rd of 7 named executive officers at RLJ Lodging Trust by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for RLJ Lodging Trust, FY2025

See an example →

What this number hides

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

Velarion Intel · free for 3 days · no card

See how RLJ Lodging Trust’s whole pay program stands against its peers

  • RLJ Lodging Trust’s company dashboard and its AI-written, board-ready brief, every figure cited to the filing
  • Peer-group intelligence, custom peer reruns and governance screens
  • Every other company we cover, with alerts when they file
Start my free trial on RLJ→

No card. Nothing is charged, and the trial ends on its own.

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

Free

Get Robert L. Johnson’s full pay file as a PDF — free

More than this page: up to 10 years of Robert’s pay history, a side-by-side peer comparison, and a one-page board summary — the whole file, yours now and by email.

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

Or track Robert L. Johnson and every company like it: Velarion Intel, free for 3 days, no card →

Robert L. Johnson compensation by year

RLJ Lodging Trust Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as RLJ Lodging Trust reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$515,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,642,133
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$636,883
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$0
Total$2,794,016

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: RLJ Lodging Trust DEF 14A filed March 23, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-033293, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the RLJ Lodging Trust filed document, accession 0001104659-26-033293. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 23, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU168,898$1,258,290—
RSU140,843$1,049,280—

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

RLJ Lodging Trust’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Leslie HalePresident, Chief Executive Officer & Trustee$9,460,014
Thomas BardenettExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$2,982,009
Robert L. Johnson · this pageFounder and Executive Chairman of the Board$2,794,016
Nikhil BhallaSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$1,290,763
Chad PerryFormer Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$1,231,452
Frederick D. McKalipExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$920,790
Sean MahoneyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$485,674

Board service

RLJ Lodging Trust board · FY2021–FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: RLJ Lodging Trust pays directors a $80,000 cash retainer and $130,000 in Restricted Stock. As stated in RLJ Lodging Trust's FY2025 proxy.

Robert L. Johnson's compensation dossier, RLJ Lodging Trust

You have read Robert L. Johnson's totals and holdings. The dossier adds each equity grant RLJ Lodging Trust disclosed for Robert L. Johnson and RLJ Lodging Trust's own disclosed peer group, where the company discloses them, with every row in a PDF and a CSV cited to its filing.

See an example →

The full RLJ Lodging Trust compensation record

free company brief

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

Compensation, the day it’s disclosed

The CompBrief Daily Digest lists the newest executive and director compensation disclosures as companies file them. Or order RLJ Lodging Trust'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 RLJ Lodging Trust'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.

Robert L. Johnson's compensation dossier