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.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$11,587,110

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

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. Open the filing on EDGAR.

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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How this record is built

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are CVS HEALTH's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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