Aviat Networks Executive Compensation (FY25)

Name: Aviat Networks (AVNW) executive compensation
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AVNW · Austin, TX · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2023 to 2025

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Data as of September 7, 2026Latest filing (8-K): November 6, 2025

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Chief executive, fiscal 2025

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Peter A. Smith

Latest say-on-pay support

November 5, 2025

Chief executive pay ratio

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To the median employee

What changed from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025

The figures that moved, and by how much. Analysis of these figures is part of the Velarion platform.

Chief executive total compensation — Peter A. Smith: $4,251,884 → $3,772,051 (11.3% lower)

Frequently asked questions

Answers drawn from the data on this page.

Who is Aviat Networks' chief executive and what were they paid?

Peter A. Smith, Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, received $3,772,051 in total compensation for fiscal 2025. Compared with the $4,251,884 reported for fiscal 2024, Smith's total was 11.3% lower.

What was Aviat Networks' say-on-pay result?

For fiscal 2025, shareholders backed the say-on-pay proposal with 96.1% of votes cast for or against in favor at the meeting held November 5, 2025.

Which companies are in Aviat Networks' peer group?

The disclosed peer group names Applied Optoelectronics, Arlo Technologies, Bel Fuse, Cambium Networks Corporation and Clearfield, among others.

What is Aviat Networks' chief executive pay ratio?

The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2025 is 64.1:1, against median employee compensation of $58,827.

Executive compensation

Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.

Fiscal 2023

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Peter A. Smith Director, President and Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
David Gray Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Bryan Tucker Senior Vice President Americas Sales and Services	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Erin Boase General Counsel, Vice President Legal Affairs	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Gary Croke Vice President Marketing and Product Line Management	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇

Fiscal 2024

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Peter A. Smith Director, President and Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Michael Connaway Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇
Erin Boase General Counsel, Vice President Legal Affairs	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
David Gray Former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Departed during or after this year	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Gary Croke Vice President Marketing and Product Line Management	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	◇
Bryan Tucker Former Senior Vice President Americas Sales and Services Departed during or after this year	◇	—	—	—	◇	—	◇	◇

Fiscal 2025

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Peter A. Smith Director, President and Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	—	—	—	◇	◇
Michael Connaway Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	—	—	—	◇	◇
Erin Boase General Counsel, Vice President Legal Affairs	◇	—	◇	—	—	—	◇	◇
Gary Croke Vice President Marketing and Product Line Management	◇	—	◇	—	—	—	◇	◇

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. A negative change in pension value is shown but, as the company reports it, not included in the total.

Equity awards granted

Individual awards as disclosed: type, date, unit counts at each level, and grant date value.

Fiscal 2025

Officer	Award	Grant date	Threshold units	Target units	Units granted	Maximum units	Exercise price	Grant date fair value
Erin Boase	RSU	◇	—	—	◇	—	—	◇
Erin Boase	PSU	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	—	◇
Gary Croke	PSU	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	—	◇
Gary Croke	RSU	◇	—	—	◇	—	—	◇
Michael Connaway	RSU	◇	—	—	◇	—	—	◇
Michael Connaway	PSU	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	—	◇
Peter A. Smith	RSU	◇	—	—	◇	—	—	◇
Peter A. Smith	PSU	◇	◇	◇	—	◇	—	◇
Peter A. Smith	RSU	—	—	—	◇	—	—	◇

Fiscal 2023, 2024 are included in the PDF.

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. Threshold, target and maximum apply only to performance awards and are never shown for time-based or option awards.

Outstanding awards

Awards still held at fiscal year end.

As disclosed at fiscal 2025 year end

Officer	Award	Unvested units	Market value of unvested units	Exercise price	Expires
Erin Boase	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	8/28/2030
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	9/1/2029
Peter A. Smith	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	8/28/2030
	Option	◇	—	◇	9/1/2029
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
Gary Croke	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	9/1/2029
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	Option	◇	—	◇	8/28/2030
Michael Connaway	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.

Director compensation

What each non-employee director was paid.

Fiscal 2025

Director	Fees earned in cash	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
John Mutch Board chair	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Bryan Ingram	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Bruce Taten	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Laxmi Akkaraju	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Michele Klein	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Scott Halliday	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Asako Aoyama	◇	—	—	—	—	—	◇

Peter A. Smith served on the board in fiscal 2025 and received no compensation for board service. Executive directors are typically paid through their executive roles, shown above.

Earlier years are included in the PDF.

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.

Director fee schedule

The standing retainers and premiums the board pays, as published.

Board cash retainer	◇
Board equity retainer	◇
Total board retainer	◇
Board chair premium	◇
Audit committee chair	◇
Audit committee member	◇
Compensation committee chair	◇
Compensation committee member	◇
Nominating and governance chair	◇
Nominating and governance member	◇

Equity is delivered as restricted stock units.

Disclosed peer group

The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.

Fiscal 2025

Applied Optoelectronics AAOI
Arlo Technologies ARLO
Bel Fuse BELFB
Cambium Networks Corporation CMBMF
Clearfield CLFD
Climb Global Solutions CLMB
Comtech Telecommunications Corp. CMTL
CTS CTS
Daktronics DAKT
Digi International, Inc. DGII
EACO symbol not shown
FARO Technologies FARO
Harmonic, Inc. HLIT
Knowles KN
NETGEAR NTGR
NetScout Systems NTCT
nLIGHT LASR
PAR Technology PAR
Ribbon Communications, Inc. RBBN
Richardson Electronics Ltd. RELL
Vishay Precision Group VPG

Say-on-pay history

Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.

Year	Meeting	Support	Votes for	Votes against	Abstentions
2025	November 5, 2025	=	◇	◇	◇
2023	November 6, 2024	=	◇	◇	◇
2022	November 8, 2023	=	◇	◇	◇
2021	November 9, 2022	=	◇	◇	◇
2020	November 10, 2021	=	◇	◇	◇
2019	November 11, 2020	=	◇	◇	◇
2018	November 13, 2019	=	◇	◇	◇
2017	November 14, 2018	=	◇	◇	◇
2016	November 16, 2016	=	◇	◇	◇

Chief executive pay ratio

As calculated and reported by the company.

Ratio

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Median employee compensation

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Chief executive total compensation

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What this page does not include

Everything above is a fact Aviat Networks disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.

Peer benchmarking

Where Aviat Networks sits against its disclosed peers — percentile position by role and by pay element, and the ranking behind it. The disclosed peer group is free; comparisons across it are part of the Velarion platform.

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Written compensation analysis

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Board and governance analysis

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Realizable pay

What the awards above are actually worth today against what they were valued at on grant, and what the gap says about the pay-for-performance link.

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238 figures on this page: 229 cited to the filing that reported them, 9 calculated from figures it prints.

229 cited to the filing

9 calculated from the filing

Documents cited

8-K, filed November 6, 2025
0001377789-25-000110
DEF 14A, filed September 23, 2025
0001140361-25-035861
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS · Fiscal Year 2025 Compensation of Non-Employee Directors · Fiscal Year 2025 Outstanding Equity Awards · Grants of Plan-Based Awards · and 1 more section
8-K, filed November 8, 2024
0001377789-24-000060
DEF 14A, filed October 7, 2024
0001377789-24-000049
Summary Compensation Table
8-K, filed November 13, 2023
0001377789-23-000047
DEF 14A, filed September 25, 2023
0001377789-23-000029
Summary Compensation Table
8-K, filed November 10, 2022
0001377789-22-000154
8-K, filed November 15, 2021
0001377789-21-000086
8-K, filed November 13, 2020
0001377789-20-000110
8-K, filed November 14, 2019
0001377789-19-000093
8-K, filed November 15, 2018
0001377789-18-000109
8-K, filed November 17, 2016
0001377789-16-000206

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Peers Aviat Networks discloses

The companies named in AVNW's own disclosed peer group.

Applied Optoelectronics Arlo Technologies Bel Fuse Cambium Networks Corporation Clearfield Comtech Telecommunications Corp.CTS Daktronics Digi International, Inc.FARO Technologies Harmonic, Inc.Knowles NETGEAR NetScout Systems nLIGHT PAR Technology Ribbon Communications, Inc.Richardson Electronics Ltd.Vishay Precision Group

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Velarion Company Intelligence. (2026). Velarion database: executive and board compensation data (Version 2026Q3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854

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@misc{velarionData2026,
  author = {{Velarion Company Intelligence}},
  title = {Velarion database: executive and board compensation data},
  year = {2026},
  version = {2026Q3},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22283854},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854}
}