Executive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer · CSX Corporation (CSX)

Stephen Fortune

A named executive officer of CSX 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

$3,583,974

FY2024: $3,586,354

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 30, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Stephen Fortune compensation by year

CSX Summary Compensation Table · all 3 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CSX reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$650,000$650,000$668,333
Bonus$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,860,011$1,860,052$1,865,419
Option awards$465,008$465,004$465,008
Non-equity incentive$747,500$533,000$507,933
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0
All other$83,469$78,298$77,281
Total$3,805,988$3,586,354$3,583,974

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CSX Corporation DEF 14A filed March 30, 2026, accession 0001628280-26-021944, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$3.8M
$3.6M
$3.6M
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU40,488$1,467,690—
RSU27,271$988,574—
Option45,773—$33.37
Option15,729—$31.67
Option26,792—$36.72

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments CSX discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,006,600$5,813,672$63,794$10,431,999
Involuntary termination without cause$1,340,000$3,691,937$5,101$5,596,971

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

CSX’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Joseph HinrichsFormer President and Chief Executive Officer$23,696,453
Stephen AngelPresident and Chief Executive Officer$11,711,612
Michael CoryExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$6,855,481
Kevin BooneExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$4,688,058
Sean PelkeyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$4,263,336
Stephen Fortune · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Digital & Technology Officer$3,583,974
Diana SorfleetRetired Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer$3,526,301

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