Executive Vice President and President, Aetna · CVS HEALTH Corp (CVS)

Steven Nelson

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Steven Nelson as a named executive officer of CVS HEALTH; 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

$11,587,110

3rd of 6 named executive officers at CVS Health by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for CVS HEALTH, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 3, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Steven Nelson compensation by year

CVS HEALTH Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as CVS HEALTH reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$1,000,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$5,799,915
Option awards$1,449,994
Non-equity incentive$2,988,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$349,201
Total$11,587,110

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: CVS HEALTH Corp DEF 14A filed April 3, 2026, accession 0001308179-26-000201, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the CVS HEALTH Corp filed document, accession 0001308179-26-000201. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 3, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU54,641$4,336,310—
RSU21,329$1,692,669—
Option90,455—$67.98
Option82,920—$71.82

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

CVS HEALTH’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
J. David JoynerPresident and Chief Executive Officer$21,214,084
Prem ShahExecutive Vice President and Group President$13,379,210
Steven Nelson · this pageExecutive Vice President and President, Aetna$11,587,110
Tilak MandadiExecutive Vice President, Ventures and Chief Experience and Technology Officer$10,977,716
Brian NewmanExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$9,420,508
Thomas CowheyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$6,715,138

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