Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer · HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC (HLX)

Scotty Sparks

A named executive officer of HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2023 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,087,099

FY2024: $2,320,269

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 1, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Scotty Sparks compensation by year

HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$460,000$460,000$460,000
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,549,607$1,509,749$1,466,099
Option awards$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$827,080$350,520$161,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$0$0$0
Total$2,836,687$2,320,269$2,087,099

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS GROUP INC DEF 14A filed April 1, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-012501, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$2.8M
$2.3M
$2.1M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awards

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU188,301$1,754,965—
PSU93,157$868,223—
PSU66,877$623,294—
RSU66,877$623,294—
RSU62,767$584,988—
RSU62,105$578,819—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Retirement———$161,000
Change in control and resignation for good reason$1,840,000$2,312,075$27,550$4,179,625
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,840,000$2,312,075$27,550$4,179,625
Involuntary termination without cause$920,000$1,370,622$0—
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$920,000$1,370,622$0—
Change in control, no termination$0$2,312,075$0$2,312,075
Death———$161,000
Disability———$161,000
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0

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

HELIX ENERGY SOLUTIONS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Owen KratzPresident and Chief Executive Officer$5,067,269
Erik StaffeldtExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$2,207,805
Scotty Sparks · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$2,087,099
Ken NeikirkExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$1,588,699

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