Chief Executive Officer · Cars.com Inc. (CARS)

Tobias Hartmann

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Tobias Hartmann as a named executive officer of Cars.com; 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

$5,000,005

2nd of 7 named executive officers at Cars.com by FY2025 total.

7 named officers on file for Cars.com, FY2025

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The filing gives the total. Cars.com’s full Executive Compensation Report gives every award, the disclosed peer set and what the total leaves out — the pair adds the board’s.

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 17, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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Tobias Hartmann compensation by year

Cars.com Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as Cars.com reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$0
Bonus$0
Stock awards$5,000,005
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$0
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$0
Total$5,000,005

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Cars.com Inc. DEF 14A filed April 17, 2026, accession 0001140361-26-015383, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the Cars.com Inc. filed document, accession 0001140361-26-015383. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 17, 2026.

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
RSU233,827$2,852,689—
PSU155,885$1,901,797—

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

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Cars.com discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Involuntary termination without cause$1,125,000$950,905$41,717$2,942,622
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,500,000$4,754,486$55,623$7,985,109

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Cars.com Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Cars.com’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Alex VetterFormer Chief Executive Officer$7,427,054
Tobias Hartmann · this pageChief Executive Officer$5,000,005
Sonia JainChief Financial Officer$3,200,318
Lisa GosselinChief Commercial Officer$2,615,125
Angelique Strong MarksChief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary$1,457,812
Doug MillerFormer President and Chief Commercial Officer$1,289,540
Matthew CrawfordFormer Chief Product and Innovation Officer$1,236,103

Board service

Cars.com board · FY2025

How this board is paid

Company policy: Cars.com pays directors a $75,000 cash retainer and $190,000 in equity. As stated in Cars.com's FY2025 proxy.

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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 Cars.com'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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