Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · GATX CORP (GATX)

Thomas Ellman

A named executive officer of GATX in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 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

$3,495,329

FY2024: $2,519,231

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed March 13, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Thomas Ellman compensation by year

GATX Summary Compensation Table · all 10 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as GATX reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$455,000$460,000$493,333$512,500$525,750$534,483$568,467$596,583$618,483$637,583
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0——$450,000
Stock awards$306,819$358,486$802,344$410,554$434,675$498,826$995,422$619,642$700,633$721,278
Option awards$310,464$366,722$393,597$411,344$409,578$505,476$598,044$615,900$687,388$729,575
Non-equity incentive$305,924$262,816$445,893$414,428$312,232$455,289$421,284$447,133$452,507$455,502
Pension and deferred compensation$349,212$477,646$0$962,321$913,460$175,780$0$507,862$44,695$485,641
All other$7,950$8,100$8,250$8,400$8,550$8,700$9,150$9,900$15,525$15,750
Total$1,735,369$1,933,770$2,143,417$2,719,546$2,604,245$2,178,554$2,592,366$2,797,020$2,519,231$3,495,329

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: GATX CORP DEF 14A filed March 13, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-027377, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the GATX CORP filed document, accession 0001104659-26-027377. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed March 13, 2026.

$1.7M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$2.5M
$3.5M
FY16
FY17
FY18
FY19
FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsOption awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU5,540$939,584—
PSU4,340$736,064—
Option14,800—$166.19
Option10,134—$126.47
Option5,000—$113.28

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

GATX’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Robert LyonsPresident and Chief Executive Officer$8,178,380
Thomas Ellman · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$3,495,329
Paul TittertonExecutive Vice President and President, Rail North America$3,205,050
Brian GlassbergExecutive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary$1,868,141
Kim NeroExecutive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer$1,346,793

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