Nucor

Nucor

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CEO pay in FY2025

Leon J. Topalian is the CEO of Nucor and was paid $14.9M in FY2025 (Dec), down 21%.

PayNo stock prices for these years
CEO pay is from each Nucor 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.

Executives5

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  1. 1Leon J. TopalianFY2025
  2. 2Stephen D. LaxtonFY2025
  3. 3David A. SumoskiFY2025
  4. 4Daniel R. NeedhamFY2025
  5. 5K. Rex QueryFY2025

Named executives and their total pay, from the Summary Compensation Table of the latest proxy.

Pay

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Nucor paid its 5 named executives $36.3M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO Leon J. Topalian was paid $14.9M of that.

Name
Leon J. TopalianChair, President and CEO
Stephen D. LaxtonChief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President
David A. SumoskiChief Operating Officer
Daniel R. NeedhamExecutive Vice President
K. Rex QueryExecutive Vice President

of each named executive, from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy.

Peers21

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The FY2025 (Dec) proxy of Nucor names 21 peer companies for pay. Among Nucor and these peers, CEO pay was 10th highest of 15 and total shareholder return was 4th highest of 15.

10th highest of 15in Nucor and its pay peers, FY2025 (Dec) by CEO pay:

$7.9M$27.9M

4th highest of 15in Nucor and its pay peers, FY2025 (Dec) by total shareholder return:

$78$498

The comes from the company's proxy. CEO pay and of each company come from its own Pay versus Performance table for the same fiscal year.

Board7

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  • Christopher J. KearneyLead independent director · 17 yr on the boardIndependentAudit, Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating (Chair)—Paid as an executive
  • Laurette T. KoellnerDirector · 10 yr on the boardIndependentAudit (Chair), Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating—Paid as an executive
  • Nadja Y. WestDirector · 6 yr on the boardIndependentAudit, Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating—Paid as an executive
  • Norma B. ClaytonDirector · 4 yr on the boardIndependentAudit, Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating—Paid as an executive
  • Michael W. LamachDirector · 3 yr on the boardIndependentAudit, Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating—Paid as an executive
  • Nicholas GangestadDirector · 2 yr on the boardIndependentAudit, Compensation and Executive Development, Governance and Nominating—Paid as an executive

The board of the latest proxy (FY2025).

Activity

  1. Pay
    Nucor CFO pay fell 14% to $6.0M in FY2025 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  2. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay fell 32% to $4.9M in FY2025 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  3. Pay
    Nucor CEO pay fell 21% to $14.9M in FY2025 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  4. Pay
    Nucor COO pay fell 18% to $5.4M in FY2025 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  5. Pay
    Nucor COO pay fell 12% to $6.5M in FY2024 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  6. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay fell 30% to $5.1M in FY2025 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  7. Pay
    Nucor CFO pay rose 106% to $7.3M in FY2023 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  8. Pay
    Nucor CEO pay fell 15% to $19.0M in FY2024 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  9. Pay
    Nucor CEO pay rose 99% to $23.1M in FY2022 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  10. Pay
    Nucor COO pay rose 37% to $7.1M in FY2022 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  11. Board
    Nicholas C. Gangestad joined the board of Nucor. Nicholas C. Gangestad sits on no other public board.
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  12. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay rose 22% to $5.6M in FY2019 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  13. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay rose 20% to $5.8M in FY2019 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  14. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay rose 36% to $4.9M in FY2018 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  15. Pay
    Nucor Executive Vice President pay rose 16% to $3.6M in FY2017 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  16. Pay
    Nucor Former Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President pay rose 49% to $7.5M in FY2019 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  17. Pay
    Nucor Former Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President pay rose 36% to $5.0M in FY2018 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  18. Pay
    Nucor Former Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President pay rose 23% to $3.7M in FY2017 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  19. Pay
    Nucor CEO pay rose 23% to $19.1M in FY2019 (Dec).
    DEF 14A
  20. Pay
    Nucor CEO pay rose 29% to $15.6M in FY2018 (Dec).
    DEF 14A

Filings38

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Current report8-KMay 19, 2026—
Proxy statementDEF 14AMar 27, 2026FY2025
Current report8-KMar 3, 2026—
Annual report10-KFeb 25, 2026FY2025
Current report8-KFeb 20, 2026—
Current report8-KDec 4, 2025—
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