Gitlab: Pay

Gitlab paid its 7 named executives $28.3M in total in FY2026 (Jan). CEO William Staples was paid $1.0M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY22 → $56
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

Sytse SijbrandijCo-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chair of the Board of Directors
FY2025 (Jan)
FY2024 (Jan)
FY2023 (Jan)
FY2022 (Jan)
FY2021 (Jan)
5 years
Ian StewardChief Revenue Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
1 year
Brian RobinsChief Financial Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
FY2025 (Jan)
FY2024 (Jan)
FY2023 (Jan)
FY2021 (Jan)
5 years
Sabrina FarmerFormer Chief Technology Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
FY2025 (Jan)
2 years
Robin SchulmanChief Legal Officer, Head of Legal and Corporate Affairs, and Corporate Secretary
FY2026 (Jan)
FY2025 (Jan)
FY2024 (Jan)
FY2023 (Jan)
FY2022 (Jan)
FY2021 (Jan)
6 years
William StaplesChief Executive Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
FY2025 (Jan)
2 years
Jessica RossChief Financial Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
1 year
Sivaprasad PadisettyChief Technology Officer
FY2026 (Jan)
1 year

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2026 (Jan), the median CEO pay of the 6 peers with pay on file was $19.1M. The CEO of Gitlab was paid $1.0M, 95% below the median.

  1. 1MongoDB
  2. 2Asana
  3. 3Dynatrace
  4. 4SentinelOne
  5. 5Braze
  6. 6UiPath
  7. 7Gitlab
  8. 8AppfolioNot disclosed
  9. 9Bill.comNot disclosed
  10. 10BlacklineNot disclosed
  11. 11ConfluentNot disclosed
  12. 12ElasticNot disclosed
  13. 13Five9Not disclosed
  14. 14FreshworksNot disclosed
  15. 15KlaviyoNot disclosed
  16. 16Procore TechnologiesNot disclosed
  17. 17QualysNot disclosed
  18. 18RubrikNot disclosed
  19. 19SmartsheetNot disclosed
  20. 20Tenable HoldingsNot 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.