Disney Releases Fiscal 2025 Executive Compensation as CEO Bob Iger Totals $45.8 Million

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Posted: Thursday January 22, 2026 5:50pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has released its Fiscal 2025 Summary Compensation Table, outlining compensation for the company's top executives across fiscal 2023, 2024, and 2025.

Bob Iger at Walt Disney World

Robert Iger, Chief Executive Officer, earned $45.8 million in total compensation for fiscal 2025. His package included a $1 million salary, $21 million in stock awards, $14 million in option awards, and $7.25 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation.

Iger's compensation falls in the middle range compared to other major media and entertainment company CEOs. Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters each earned over $60 million in 2024, while Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav received $51.9 million. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts earned $33.9 million in 2024, making Iger's pay package higher than some competitors but lower than others.

Hugh Johnston joined Disney in fiscal 2024 as Senior Executive Vice President, President and Chief Financial Officer. He received $20.2 million in total compensation for fiscal 2025, with a $2 million salary and $9.2 million in stock awards.

Executive Compensation Breakdown

The five most highly compensated executives in fiscal 2025 were:

Robert Iger (CEO) - $45.8 million
Hugh Johnston (CFO) - $20.2 million
Horacio Gutierrez (Chief Legal Officer) - $16.3 million
Sonia Coleman (Chief People Officer) - $7.4 million
Kristina Schake (Chief Communications Officer) - $6.2 million

Iger's fiscal 2025 compensation increased from $41.1 million in fiscal 2024. His stock awards rose from $18.3 million to $21 million year-over-year.

Johnston received a $3 million cash sign-on bonus when he joined Disney in December 2023, which is reflected in his fiscal 2024 compensation of $24.5 million.

Stock Awards and Performance Targets

Stock awards for each fiscal year include grants subject to performance conditions. The values are based on the probability that performance targets will be achieved.

If the highest level of performance conditions are met, the grant date stock award values would be:

Fiscal 2025:

Iger: $37.4 million
Johnston: $13.9 million
Gutierrez: $11.5 million
Coleman: $4.3 million
Schake: $3.9 million

Gutierrez, who serves as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Legal and Global Affairs Officer, saw his total compensation increase to $16.3 million in fiscal 2025 from $15.8 million the previous year.

Coleman's compensation as Chief People Officer totaled $7.4 million, while Schake received $6.2 million as Chief Communications Officer.

The compensation structure includes base salary, stock awards, option awards, non-equity incentive plan compensation, and other compensation components that vary by executive.

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Andrew C7 days ago

A nice feel-good letter.

Andrew C7 days ago

US recession odds have fallen over the last 4 months. And are way off April's high.

DCBaker7 days ago

A note from Bob Iger to D23 Members:

Disney Irish9 days ago

To add to that, if it was really about all that he would be leaving immediately and not next month, and then wouldn't be sticking around in an advisory role for the next 10 months.

Dranth9 days ago

The only mention in those files according to the summary on google was from a disgruntled investor who, in exchange for "information", wanted a favor from the DoJ involving going after Disney to settle a grudge (100% wild guess, but I am going with Peltz or Perlmutter). Other than that, nothing. Who knows though, there certainly are a lot of people who protested and denied a good bit that turned out to be full of it and even more that few would have pegged as being in there directly and yet they were. Anyway, just my guess, but I think a big part of this is him looking at the politics you have to play as a business to avoid a target on your back and just didn't want to deal with it. Combine that with the increasing risk of a recession, and he likely thought it was just a good time to get out.

djkidkaz9 days ago

I think Josh will be great for the parks. He definitely has some level of knowing what the theme park fan community wants. It’s not coincidence that we are getting a villain’s land and a monsters inc door coaster which had been talked about for like 20 years.

wannabeBelle9 days ago

Quite possibly. The basically jist of the discussion was that Bob knows something is up and he wants out like NOW. Marie

LSLS9 days ago

Eh, disagree there. He retired like that day out of the blue when all that stuff was hitting. If we are going into reasons outside of just wanting to be done, I do think the idea that the summer is not looking good makes a lot of sense. Or real conspiracy, could be this quarter is looking really bad and he wants out before those numbers hit.

Tom P.9 days ago

So Bob knows we're about to have another pandemic?

wannabeBelle9 days ago

I was watching a podcast that was speculating as to why the rush for Bob to leave now. One thought was that there is something in some files that were recently released that may have been not so favorable to Bob and the company would prefer he was gone. The other thought was that this has happened before when Covid hit and closed down everything. Bob had retired about a month or so before and the podcaster was saying this feels very similar. The two could be linked as well. We shall see....... Marie

MR.Dis9 days ago

If I was to guess, Disney BOD wanted him to stay to steady nerves on Wall Street to keep the stock price from full free fall.

HMF9 days ago

That will likely be it's downfall.

el_super9 days ago

Nothing is going to change their desire to make money. People still want to retire someday and that requires turning a little sum of money into a larger sum of money.

Andrew C9 days ago

Was it normal the last time this played out for them? For optics sake, and to grow confidence in the ranks that Josh is the right person, he just needs to go.