Rocket Lab: Pay

Rocket Lab paid its 4 named executives $8.2M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO Peter Beck was paid $6.8M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY20 → $690
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

Peter BeckPresident, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2021 (Dec)Not disclosed
5 years
Adam SpiceChief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2021 (Dec)Not disclosed
5 years
Arjun KampaniSenior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
3 years
Frank KleinChief Operations Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
2 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 5 peers with pay on file was $7.1M. The CEO of Rocket Lab was paid $6.8M, 4% below the median.

  1. 1Mercury Systems
  2. 2MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings
  3. 3Impinj
  4. 4Rocket Lab
  5. 5Appfolio
  6. 6Astera Labs
  7. 7AST SpaceMobileNot disclosed
  8. 8AeroVironmentNot disclosed
  9. 9Aurora InnovationNot disclosed
  10. 10BlacklineNot disclosed
  11. 11GlobalstarNot disclosed
  12. 12Iridium CommunicationsNot disclosed
  13. 13Joby AviationNot disclosed
  14. 14Kratos Defense & Security SolutionsNot disclosed
  15. 15Loar HoldingsNot disclosed
  16. 16Lucid GroupNot disclosed
  17. 17MDA SpaceNot disclosed
  18. 18QuantumScapeNot disclosed
  19. 19ViasatNot 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.