President & Chief Operating Officer · CARRIAGE SERVICES INC (CSV)

Steven Metzger

A named executive officer of CARRIAGE SERVICES in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2018 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

$2,688,972

FY2024: $3,088,999

2nd of 5 named executive officers at Carriage Services by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 27, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Steven Metzger compensation by year

CARRIAGE SERVICES Summary Compensation Table · all 8 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as CARRIAGE SERVICES reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$210,000$250,000$320,000$400,000$500,000$551,000$600,000$625,000
Bonus$50,000$150,000$200,000$400,000$337,500$937,500$1,312,500$0
Stock awards$0$47,985$135,408$851,191$0$396,203$525,096$1,050,000
Option awards$0$0$0$507,000$695,200$307,073$524,655$0
Non-equity incentive$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$950,123
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$65,103$0$0$10,150$12,791$17,827$126,748$63,849
Total$325,103$447,985$655,408$2,168,341$1,545,491$2,209,603$3,088,999$2,688,972

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC DEF 14A filed March 27, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-036092, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the CARRIAGE SERVICES INC filed document, accession 0001104659-26-036092. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 27, 2026.

$325K
$448K
$655K
$2.2M
$1.5M
$2.2M
$3.1M
$2.7M
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU30,978$1,310,369—
PSU13,605$575,492—
Option33,840—$24.48
Option8,750—$32.69
Option22,856—$49.48
Option10,000—$34.79

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

CARRIAGE SERVICES’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Carlos QuezadaCEO & Vice Chair of the Board (Principal Executive Officer)$3,859,198
Steven Metzger · this pagePresident & Chief Operating Officer$2,688,972
John EnwrightSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer (Principal Financial Officer)$1,502,966
Rob FranchChief Information Officer$1,203,087
Kathryn ShanleyChief Accounting Officer (Interim Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)$1,091,135

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