Chief Operating Officer · Riot Platforms, Inc. (RIOT)

Stephen Howell

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Stephen Howell as a named executive officer of Riot Platforms; 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, FY2025

$7,200,726

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Riot Platforms by FY2025 total.

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

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Stephen Howell compensation by year

Riot Platforms Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Riot Platforms reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$450,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$6,160,152
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$562,500
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$28,074
Total$7,200,726

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Riot Platforms, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 30, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-053098, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Riot Platforms, Inc. filed document, accession 0001104659-26-053098. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 30, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU443,656$5,621,122—
PSU300,000$3,801,000—
PSU251,256$3,183,414—
RSU221,827$2,810,548—
RSU83,752$1,061,138—
PSU49,284$624,428—
RSU8,215$104,084—

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

Riot Platforms’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Jonathan GibbsFormer Chief Data Center Officer$12,674,783
Stephen Howell · this pageChief Operating Officer$7,200,726
Jason LesChief Executive Officer$3,460,222
Benjamin YiExecutive Chairman$3,452,334
Colin YeeChief Financial Officer$1,133,655

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