Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer · VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC (VZ)

Vandana Venkatesh

A named executive officer of VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2024 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

$7,430,590

FY2024: $6,435,134

6th of 6 named executive officers at Verizon Communications by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 6, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-11-10.

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Vandana Venkatesh compensation by year

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS Summary Compensation Table · all 2 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2024FY2025
Salary$700,000$900,000
Bonus$0$0
Stock awards$4,500,068$5,000,068
Option awards$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,081,500$1,350,000
Pension and deferred compensation$3,973$4,265
All other$149,593$176,257
Total$6,435,134$7,430,590

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC DEF 14A filed April 6, 2026, accession 0001308179-26-000210, and prior-year filings.

How this page was built: the VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC filed document, accession 0001308179-26-000210. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed April 6, 2026.

$6.4M
$7.4M
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU89,001$3,625,011—
PSU66,279$2,699,544—
RSU47,468$1,933,372—
RSU33,475$1,363,437—
RSU14,657$596,980—

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

Insider transactions since the last proxy

16 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 6, 2026)
current to 2026-11-10 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-11-05Grant or award derivative—96.94$13.1759,311.63
2026-10-22Grant or award derivative—98.91$12.9158,309.43
2026-10-08Grant or award derivative—96.49$13.2358,210.52
2026-09-24Grant or award derivative—94.53$13.5158,114.04
2026-09-10Grant or award derivative—89.55$14.2658,019.51
2026-08-27Grant or award derivative—90.52$14.1157,929.96
2026-08-13Grant or award derivative—92.78$13.7657,839.45
2026-07-30Grant or award derivative—97.01$13.1656,906.6

The 8 most recent of 16 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$4,500,000$9,861,467$79,809—
Change in control, no termination—$0—$0
Death—$9,861,467——
Involuntary termination without cause$4,500,000$9,861,467$79,809—
Retirement—$9,861,467——
Disability—$9,861,467——

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

VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Daniel SchulmanChief Executive Officer$34,311,016
Hans VestbergFormer Chairman and Chief Executive Officer$31,175,022
Sowmyanarayan SampathFormer Executive Vice President and Group CEO – Verizon Consumer$18,901,142
Anthony SkiadasExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer$16,008,226
Kyle MaladyExecutive Vice President and Group CEO Verizon Business$12,762,860
Vandana Venkatesh · this pageExecutive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer$7,430,590

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