Ingles Markets Executive Compensation (FY25)
IMKTA · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2023 to 2025
The Ingles Markets brief, $1,500
Positioning against its disclosed peers, the governance read, incentive design, and the CD&A alignment analysis; the full peer table; a committee-ready PDF.
From $1,200 for the board report; $2,400 for both.
Data as of September 8, 2026Latest filing (8-K): May 5, 2026
7 filings cited on this page
Method: intel.velarion.ai/methodology
A report that fails to generate is refunded in full
Published by Velarion Company Intelligence
$1,500Get the executive brief
96 figures on this page: 90 cited to the filing that reported them, 6 calculated from figures it prints. See the citations
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 — James Lanning: $3,132,883 → $3,130,472 (0.1% lower)
Say-on-pay support: 93.2% → 91.2% (2.0 points lower)
Frequently asked questions
Answers drawn from the data on this page.
Who is Ingles Markets' chief executive and what were they paid?
Total compensation for James Lanning, Chief Executive Officer and President, came to $3,130,472 in fiscal 2025. Lanning's total moved 0.1% lower from the $3,132,883 reported for fiscal 2024.
What was Ingles Markets' say-on-pay result?
For fiscal 2025, shareholders backed the say-on-pay proposal with 91.2% of votes cast for or against in favor at the meeting held April 30, 2026.
Which companies are in Ingles Markets' peer group?
The disclosed peer group names SpartanNash Co., The Kroger Co., Village Super Market, Inc and Weis Markets, Inc.
What is Ingles Markets' chief executive pay ratio?
For fiscal 2025, the company reported a chief executive pay ratio of 132:1, against median employee compensation of $23,748.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Ingle Chairman of the Board | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
James Lanning Chief Executive Officer and President | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Patricia Jackson Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Michael Hogan President, Milkco, Inc. | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2024
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Ingle Chairman of the Board | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
James Lanning Chief Executive Officer and President | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Patricia Jackson Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Michael Hogan President, Milkco, Inc. | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2025
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Robert Ingle Chairman of the Board | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
James Lanning Chief Executive Officer and President | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Patricia Jackson Vice President Finance, Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Michael Hogan President, Milkco, Inc. | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fred D. Ayers | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Ernest E. Ferguson | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Brenda S. Tudor | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Laura Ingle Sharp | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
John R. Lowden | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Dwight Jacobs, James W. Lanning, Patricia E. Jackson, Robert P. Ingle II and Rebekah Lowe 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.
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 | ◇ |
| Total board retainer | ◇ |
| Board chair premium | ◇ |
| Audit committee chair | ◇ |
| Audit committee member | ◇ |
| Compensation committee chair | ◇ |
| Compensation committee member | ◇ |
| Board meeting fee | ◇ |
| Committee meeting fee | ◇ |
Disclosed peer group
The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.
Fiscal 2025
- SpartanNash Co. SPTN
- The Kroger Co. KR
- Village Super Market, Inc VLGEA
- Weis Markets, Inc. WMK
Say-on-pay history
Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
| Year | Meeting | Support | Votes for | Votes against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | April 30, 2026 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2024 | March 3, 2025 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2023 | February 13, 2024 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2022 | February 14, 2023 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2021 | February 15, 2022 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2016 | February 14, 2017 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
Chief executive pay ratio
As calculated and reported by the company.
Ratio
◇
Median employee compensation
◇
What this page does not include
Everything above is a fact Ingles Markets disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.
Peer benchmarking
Where Ingles Markets 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.
Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Written compensation analysis
A read of the pay program as designed and as paid: incentive structure, goal rigor, the alignment between the committee's stated philosophy and what the numbers show.
Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Board and governance analysis
Committee composition, independence, director pay positioning, and the governance provisions read together rather than listed.
Board Governance Report — $1,200Realizable 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.
Velarion IntelligenceAdviser switching and vote outcomes
Two datasets covering compensation-adviser changes and what followed a contested vote. Both are part of the Velarion platform.
Inquire about accessMultiple companies at once
Cross-company views, cohort screens, and data export across the industries we cover. This page is one company; the platform is all of them.
Velarion IntelligenceCitations
Every figure on this page is cited to the document that reported it. Select any figure to see its citation.
96 figures on this page: 90 cited to the filing that reported them, 6 calculated from figures it prints.
90 cited to the filing
6 calculated from the filing
Documents cited
- 0001437749-26-014872
- 0001140361-26-012518CEO Pay Ratio · SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
- 0001437749-25-006302
- 0001157523-24-000261
- 0001157523-23-000297
- 0001157523-22-000213
- 0001157523-17-000558
Cite this data
This page is free to cite. Attribution we ask for:
Velarion, “Ingles Markets executive compensation, FY2023–FY2025.” https://intel.velarion.ai/comp/IMKTA (accessed 2026).
Short form: data: Velarion
The Ingles Markets brief, $1,500
Positioning against its disclosed peers, the governance read, incentive design, and the CD&A alignment analysis; the full peer table; a committee-ready PDF.
From $1,200 for the board report; $2,400 for both.
7 filings cited on this page
Method: intel.velarion.ai/methodology
A report that fails to generate is refunded in full
Published by Velarion Company Intelligence
Embed this data
A small, cited view of this data for your own page or newsletter. Every embed carries a visible link back here, so the attribution travels with it.
The headline figures, each with its citation.
Connect an AI assistant
Ask your own assistant about Ingles Markets and roughly 3,000 other US public companies, and get back the same figures on this page with the same citations. Free read access, no account. Add this to your assistant's connector settings.
Peers Ingles Markets discloses
The companies named in IMKTA's own disclosed peer group.
Terms on this page
Free to read and cite. Redistribution or bulk use of the dataset requires a data license. Talk to us about the data license.
Cite this data
APA
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}
}