Executive Vice President and Chief People, Communications and Enterprise Services Officer · LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP (LNC)

Sean Woodroffe

A named executive officer of LINCOLN NATIONAL 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,174,138

FY2024: $4,756,313

5th of 5 named executive officers at Lincoln National by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 16, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Sean Woodroffe compensation by year

LINCOLN NATIONAL Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as LINCOLN NATIONAL reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$507,692$834,616$875,000
Bonus$1,000,000$0$0
Stock awards$5,971,153$1,710,783$1,762,760
Option awards$320,005$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,733,465$2,073,116$2,102,894
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$29,800$137,798$433,484
Total$9,562,115$4,756,313$5,174,138

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP DEF 14A filed April 16, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-157983, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the LINCOLN NATIONAL CORP filed document, accession 0001193125-26-157983. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 16, 2026.

$9.6M
$4.8M
$5.2M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU87,648$3,902,965—
RSU77,625$3,456,641—
PSU65,076$2,897,834—
PSU45,158$2,010,886—
RSU32,538$1,448,917—
RSU26,295$1,170,916—
RSU21,251$946,307—
Option16,165—$21.13

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

4 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 16, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-06Sale—17,500$40.24103,296
2026-08-17Sale—11,000$45.28119,947
2026-06-01Sale—25,000$34.75130,189
2026-05-24Tax withholding—45,150$36.03155,189

The 4 most recent of 4 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 →

LINCOLN NATIONAL’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Ellen CooperPresident and CEO$27,991,242
Christopher NeczyporExecutive Vice President and CFO$7,683,635
James ReidExecutive Vice President and President, Workplace Solutions$7,352,626
Brian KrollExecutive Vice President, Head of Retail Life and Annuity Solutions$5,290,229
Sean Woodroffe · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief People, Communications and Enterprise Services Officer$5,174,138

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