Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer · Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI)

Sarah King

FY2026 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Sarah King as a named executive officer of Darden Restaurants; 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2026

$3,241,140

6th of 6 named executive officers at Darden Restaurants by FY2026 total.

6 named officers on file for Darden Restaurants, FY2026

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed August 10, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Sarah King compensation by year

Darden Restaurants Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Darden Restaurants reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2026
Salary$612,981
Bonus$0
Stock awards$1,179,748
Option awards$329,569
Non-equity incentive$839,273
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$279,569
Total$3,241,140

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Darden Restaurants, Inc. DEF 14A filed August 10, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-342023, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Darden Restaurants, Inc. filed document, accession 0001193125-26-342023. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed August 10, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU13,819$2,817,832—
RSU4,981$1,015,676—
Option3,258—$121.47
Option5,826—$139.43
Option4,532—$169.02
Option4,571—$208.51

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Darden Restaurants’s named executive officers, FY2026

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2026 total
Ricardo CardenasPresident and Chief Executive Officer$34,815,979
Rajesh VennamSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer$5,462,639
M. John MartinGroup President$4,098,775
Todd BurrowesGroup President and President, Chuy's$4,092,658
Matthew BroadFormer Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, and Corporate Secretary$3,248,581
Sarah King · this pageSenior Vice President, Chief People Officer$3,241,140

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