Chief Technology Officer · YELP INC (YELP)

Sam Eaton

A named executive officer of YELP in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 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

$5,486,275

FY2024: $5,024,812

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-07.

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Sam Eaton compensation by year

YELP Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as YELP reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$500,000$465,424$549,954$590,110
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$3,860,801$4,976,936$4,222,992$4,522,376
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$316,225$251,866$373,788
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$0$0$0$0
Total$4,360,801$5,758,585$5,024,812$5,486,275

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: YELP INC DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001345016-26-000027, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the YELP INC filed document, accession 0001345016-26-000027. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 17, 2026.

$4.4M
$5.8M
$5.0M
$5.5M
FY21
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU36,022$1,094,709—
RSU26,914$817,916—
RSU24,231$736,380—
RSU21,096$641,107—
RSU17,084$519,183—
RSU12,008$364,923—
RSU11,321$344,045—
RSU10,548$320,554—
RSU9,584$291,258—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

1 Form 4 line since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 17, 2026)
current to 2026-11-07 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-05-20Tax withholding—11,266$22.47208,882

The 1 most recent of 1 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 →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments YELP discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$980,910$0$6,106$987,015

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

YELP’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Jeremy StoppelmanCo-Founder and Chief Executive Officer$10,256,932
Jed NachmanChief Operating Officer$5,590,056
Sam Eaton · this pageChief Technology Officer$5,486,275
David SchwarzbachChief Financial Officer$5,456,890
Craig SaldanhaChief Product Officer$4,101,469

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How this record is built

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