Former Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer · Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRTX)

Stuart Arbuckle

A named executive officer of Vertex Pharmaceuticals in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2022 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$9,996,347

FY2024: $9,383,463

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 2, 2026 (DEF 14A).

Stuart Arbuckle compensation by year

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Vertex Pharmaceuticals reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$900,000$900,000$941,154$521,486
Bonus$0—$0$0
Stock awards$12,294,259$6,234,712$6,234,857$9,341,927
Option awards$0—$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,761,750$1,822,500$2,130,000$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0—$0$0
All other$43,097$41,737$77,452$132,934
Total$14,999,106$8,998,949$9,383,463$9,996,347

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc DEF 14A filed April 2, 2026, accession 0000875320-26-000153, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$15.0M
$9.0M
$9.4M
$10.0M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU11,210$5,082,166—
RSU8,448$3,829,985—
RSU7,904$3,583,357—
RSU4,940$2,239,598—

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

Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Reshma KewalramaniChief Executive Officer and President$21,144,261
Stuart Arbuckle · this pageFormer Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer$9,996,347
Charles WagnerExecutive Vice President, Chief Operating and Financial Officer$8,241,809
Nia TatsisExecutive Vice President, Chief Regulatory and Quality Officer$6,974,920
Amit SachdevExecutive Vice President, Chief Patient and External Affairs Officer$6,777,243
Carmen BozicExecutive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer$6,646,321

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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 Vertex Pharmaceuticals'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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