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Core & Main Executive Compensation (FY25)

CNM · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2023 to 2025

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Chief executive, fiscal 2025
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Mark Witkowski
Median of the other named officers
$3,570,179
5 officers, excluding the chief executive
Latest say-on-pay support
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June 23, 2026
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 — Mark Witkowski: $1,830,886 → $9,327,106
Say-on-pay support: 93.2% → 90.3% (2.9 points lower)

Frequently asked questions

Answers drawn from the data on this page.
Who is Core & Main's chief executive and what were they paid?
Mark Witkowski, Chief Executive Officer, received $9,327,106 in total compensation for fiscal 2025. Witkowski's total moved up from the $1,830,886 reported for fiscal 2024.
What was Core & Main's say-on-pay result?
The say-on-pay proposal drew 90.3% of votes cast for or against in favor at the meeting held June 23, 2026 for fiscal 2026.

Executive compensation

Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2023
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Stephen LeClair
Former Executive Chair and Former Chief Executive Officer
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Mark Witkowski
Chief Executive Officer
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Bradford Cowles
President
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Mark Whittenburg
Former General Counsel and Secretary
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Fiscal 2024
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Stephen LeClair
Former Executive Chair and Former Chief Executive Officer
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Michael Huebert
President
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Mark Witkowski
Chief Executive Officer
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Bradford Cowles
President
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Mark Whittenburg
Former General Counsel and Secretary
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Fiscal 2025
OfficerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension and deferred earningsAll other compensationTotal
Mark Witkowski
Chief Executive Officer
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Bradford Cowles
President
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Michael Huebert
President
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Robyn Bradbury
Chief Financial Officer
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Mark Whittenburg
Former General Counsel and Secretary
◇—◇◇◇—◇◇
Stephen LeClair
Former Executive Chair and Former Chief Executive Officer
◇———◇—◇◇
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.

Disclosed peer group

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

Say-on-pay history

Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
YearMeetingSupportVotes forVotes againstAbstentions
2026June 23, 2026=◇◇◇
2025June 24, 2025=◇◇◇
2024June 26, 2024=◇◇◇
2023June 28, 2023=◇◇◇
2022July 19, 2022=◇◇◇
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Citations

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108 figures on this page: 103 cited to the filing that reported them, 5 calculated from figures it prints.
103 cited to the filing
5 calculated from the filing

Documents cited

  1. 0001856525-26-000059
    Item 5.07 SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
  2. 0001856525-26-000046
  3. 0001856525-25-000124
    Item 5.07 SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
  4. 0001856525-24-000076
    Item 5.07 SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
  5. 0001856525-23-000035
    Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
  6. 0001856525-22-000031
    Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
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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
BibTeX
@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}
}
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