Zai Lab: Pay

Zai Lab paid its 5 named executives $25.9M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO Samantha (Ying) Du was paid $10.7M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY20 → $13
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

Samantha (Ying) DuChief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Board of Directors
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2021 (Dec)Not disclosed
5 years
Josh SmileyPresident and Chief Operating Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)Not disclosed
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
4 years
Rafael AmadoPresident, Head of Global Research and Development
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)Not disclosed
4 years
F. Ty EdmondsonChief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
2 years
Yajing ChenChief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
3 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 6 peers with pay on file was $12.4M. The CEO of Zai Lab was paid $10.7M, 14% below the median.

  1. 1PTC Therapeutics
  2. 2INSMED
  3. 3Ionis Pharmaceuticals
  4. 4Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical
  5. 5Zai Lab
  6. 6Mirum Pharmaceuticals
  7. 7Agios Pharmaceuticals
  8. 8Acadia PharmaceuticalsNot disclosed
  9. 9Amicus Therapeutics, Inc.Not disclosed
  10. 10Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Not disclosed
  11. 11Axsome TherapeuticsNot disclosed
  12. 12BeOne Medicines AG (formerly BeiGene, Ltd.)Not disclosed
  13. 13Biocryst PharmaceuticalsNot disclosed
  14. 14Blueprint Medicines CorporationNot disclosed
  15. 15Dynavax Technologies CorporationNot disclosed
  16. 16Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Not disclosed
  17. 17Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, plcNot disclosed
  18. 18Travere Therapeutics, Inc.Not disclosed
  19. 19Vir Biotechnology, Inc.Not disclosed
  20. 20Xencor, 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.