Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP INC (PPBI)

Ronald Nicolas, Jr.

A named executive officer of PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2024. 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, FY2024

$2,558,462

FY2023: $2,471,217

3rd of 5 named executive officers at Pacific Premier Bancorp by FY2024 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 7, 2025 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Ronald Nicolas, Jr. compensation by year

PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024
Salary$525,000$550,000$555,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,506,521$1,448,797$1,428,511
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$246,305$400,988$495,338
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$47,445$71,432$79,613
Total$2,325,271$2,471,217$2,558,462

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP INC DEF 14A filed April 7, 2025, accession 0001558370-25-004551, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP INC filed document, accession 0001558370-25-004551. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 7, 2025.

$2.3M
$2.5M
$2.6M
FY22
FY23
FY24
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU33,171$826,621—
PSU29,013$723,004—
PSU20,255$504,742—
RSU20,072$500,194—
PSU17,273$430,443—
RSU6,770$168,708—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP INC's FY2024 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

9 Form 4 lines since the FY2024 proxy (filed April 7, 2025)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2025-08-31Disposition to the issuer—306,599—0
2025-08-27Gift—170,749$0.00306,599
2025-08-27Gift—170,749$0.000
2025-08-25Exercise or conversion—8,236—170,749
2025-08-25Exercise or conversion derivative—30,108$0.000
2025-08-25Exercise or conversion derivative—33,171$0.000
2025-08-25Exercise or conversion derivative—33,542$0.000
2025-08-25Exercise or conversion derivative—8,236—0

The 8 most recent of 9 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

PACIFIC PREMIER BANCORP’s named executive officers, FY2024

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2024 total
Steven GardnerChairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President$4,682,495
Edward WilcoxPresident and Chief Operating Officer of the Bank$2,905,986
Ronald Nicolas Jr. · this pageSenior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,558,462
Michael KarrSenior Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer$1,494,855
Thomas RiceSenior Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer$1,450,516

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