Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer · RLJ Lodging Trust (RLJ)

Thomas Bardenett

A named executive officer of RLJ Lodging Trust 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.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$2,982,009

FY2024: $2,910,906

2nd of 7 named executive officers at RLJ Lodging Trust by FY2025 total.

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Thomas Bardenett compensation by year

RLJ Lodging Trust Summary Compensation Table · all 4 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as RLJ Lodging Trust reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$550,000$550,000$565,000$565,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,321,396$1,420,368$1,765,709$1,768,457
Option awards$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$600,000$640,000$535,000$600,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0
All other$43,108$45,485$45,197$48,552
Total$2,514,504$2,655,854$2,910,906$2,982,009

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: RLJ Lodging Trust DEF 14A filed March 23, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-033293, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the RLJ Lodging Trust filed document, accession 0001104659-26-033293. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 23, 2026.

$2.5M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.0M
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU168,651$1,256,450—
RSU148,735$1,108,076—

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

RLJ Lodging Trust’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Leslie HalePresident, Chief Executive Officer & Trustee$9,460,014
Thomas Bardenett · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer$2,982,009
Robert L. JohnsonFounder and Executive Chairman of the Board$2,794,016
Nikhil BhallaSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer$1,290,763
Chad PerryFormer Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$1,231,452
Frederick D. McKalipExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary$920,790
Sean MahoneyFormer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$485,674

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