Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer - Warehouse Operations, U.S. and Mexico · Costco Wholesale Corp (COST)

Russ Miller

A named executive officer of Costco Wholesale in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2020 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

$5,181,678

FY2024: $5,214,838

6th of 6 named executive officers at Costco Wholesale by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed December 4, 2025 (DEF 14A).

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Russ Miller compensation by year

Costco Wholesale Summary Compensation Table · all 6 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Costco Wholesale reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$591,385$617,644$698,366$728,135$743,231$765,192
Bonus$94,000$8,000$13,600$16,000$16,000$16,000
Stock awards$3,258,272$3,316,753$3,976,572$4,004,156$4,212,982$4,123,770
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$80,412$204,000$108,000$148,000$184,000
Pension and deferred compensation$18,259$15,264$14,890$32,752$32,763$27,861
All other$98,862$106,589$97,013$59,403$61,862$64,855
Total$4,060,778$4,144,662$5,004,441$4,948,446$5,214,838$5,181,678

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Costco Wholesale Corp DEF 14A filed December 4, 2025, accession 0000909832-25-000159, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Costco Wholesale Corp filed document, accession 0000909832-25-000159. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed December 4, 2025.

$4.1M
$4.1M
$5.0M
$4.9M
$5.2M
$5.2M
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FY21
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FY23
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FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU4,654$4,390,211—

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

Costco Wholesale’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ron VachrisChief Executive Officer, President and Director$13,932,597
Javier PolitExecutive Vice President, Chief Information and Digital Officer$7,508,209
Gary MillerchipExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$6,770,513
Richard GalantiFormer Executive Vice President$6,504,736
Pierre RielExecutive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer - International Division$5,287,017
Russ Miller · this pageSenior Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer - Warehouse Operations, U.S. and Mexico$5,181,678

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