Executive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer · LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC (LECO)

Susan Edwards

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Susan Edwards as a named executive officer of LINCOLN ELECTRIC; 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

$1,589,361

6th of 7 named executive officers at Lincoln Electric by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 19, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Susan Edwards compensation by year

LINCOLN ELECTRIC Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as LINCOLN ELECTRIC reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$485,000
Bonus$0
Stock awards$511,251
Option awards$162,524
Non-equity incentive$382,672
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$47,914
Total$1,589,361

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC DEF 14A filed March 19, 2026, accession 0002071876-26-000032, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC filed document, accession 0002071876-26-000032. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 19, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU3,158$756,783—
PSU1,148$275,107—
RSU789$189,076—
RSU574$137,553—
Option1,434—$246.54
Option2,910—$215.90

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

LINCOLN ELECTRIC’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Steven HedlundChairman and Chief Executive Officer$8,394,536
Christopher MapesExecutive Chair$7,126,026
Gabriel BrunoExecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$2,910,855
Jennifer AnsberryExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$1,924,695
Michael WhiteheadExecutive Vice President, President, Americas Welding$1,624,229
Susan Edwards · this pageExecutive Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer$1,589,361
Michele KuhrtExecutive Vice President, Chief Transformation Officer$1,472,933

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