F5: Pay

F5 paid its 6 named executives $49.7M in total in FY2025 (Sep). CEO François Locoh-Donou was paid $23.0M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY20 → $263
CEO pay is from each proxy. The stock line is the value of $100 put in the stock at the start, from the price change of each fiscal year. Dividends are not in it.

Pay of each named executive

François Locoh-DonouPresident and Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
FY2023 (Sep)
FY2022 (Sep)
FY2021 (Sep)
5 years
Tom FountainChief Operating Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
FY2023 (Sep)
FY2022 (Sep)
FY2021 (Sep)
5 years
Chad WhalenChief Revenue Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
FY2023 (Sep)
FY2022 (Sep)
FY2021 (Sep)
5 years
John MaddisonExecutive VP and Chief Marketing Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
1 year
Cooper WernerExecutive VP and Chief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
1 year
Frank PelzerFormer Executive VP and Chief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Sep)
FY2024 (Sep)
FY2023 (Sep)
FY2022 (Sep)
FY2021 (Sep)
5 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Sep), the median CEO pay of the 14 peers with pay on file was $19.3M. The CEO of F5 was paid $23.0M, 20% above the median.

  1. 1Cloudflare
  2. 2Docusign
  3. 3Twilio
  4. 4Okta
  5. 5NetApp
  6. 6F5
  7. 7Nutanix
  8. 8Dynatrace
  9. 9Trimble
  10. 10Ciena
  11. 11Akamai Technologies
  12. 12Fortinet
  13. 13Unity Software
  14. 14Dropbox
  15. 15Zscaler
  16. 16CheckPoint Software Technologies Ltd.Not disclosed
  17. 17DatadogNot disclosed
  18. 18Gen DigitalNot disclosed
  19. 19InformaticaNot disclosed
  20. 20Pure Storage, Inc.Not disclosed
  21. 21Teradata CorporationNot disclosed
  22. 22VeriSign, Inc.Not disclosed

Pay of each named executive comes from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy statement. Realized pay adds the value of options used and stock that vested. CEO pay of each peer comes from its own Pay versus Performance table.