Powell Industries Executive Compensation (FY25)

Name: Powell Industries (POWL) executive compensation
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POWL · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2023 to 2025

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Data as of September 7, 2026Latest filing (8-K): February 18, 2026

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Chief executive, fiscal 2025

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Brett Cope

Latest say-on-pay support

February 18, 2026

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 — Brett Cope: $3,436,178 → $3,600,369 (4.8% higher)

Frequently asked questions

Answers drawn from the data on this page.

Who is Powell Industries' chief executive and what were they paid?

Total compensation for Brett Cope, President and Chief Executive Officer, came to $3,600,369 in fiscal 2025. Compared with the $3,436,178 reported for fiscal 2024, Cope's total was 4.8% higher.

What was Powell Industries' say-on-pay result?

Shareholders supported the say-on-pay proposal with 98.4% of votes cast including abstentions in favor at the meeting held February 18, 2026 for fiscal 2025.

Which companies are in Powell Industries' peer group?

Companies named in the disclosed peer group include Ameresco, Inc., Belden, Inc., CECO Environmental, Daktronics, Inc. and EnerSys, among others.

What is Powell Industries' chief executive pay ratio?

The company reported a chief executive pay ratio of 70.8:1 for fiscal 2025, against median employee compensation of $50,876.

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
Brett Cope President & Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Michael Metcalf Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇†
Milburn Honeycutt Vice President Controller and Chief Accounting Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇

Fiscal 2024

Officer	Salary	Bonus	Stock awards	Option awards	Non-equity incentive	Pension and deferred earnings	All other compensation	Total
Brett Cope President and Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Michael Metcalf Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Robert Callahan Former Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer and Chief Information Officer Departed during or after this year	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Milburn Honeycutt Former Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer 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
Brett Cope President and Chief Executive Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Michael Metcalf Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Principal Accounting Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇
Davide Tuninetti Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer	◇	—	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇
Robert Callahan Former Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer and Chief Information Officer Departed during or after this year	◇	—	◇	—	◇	◇	◇	◇†

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
Davide Tuninetti	RSU	◇	—	—	◇	—	—	◇

Fiscal 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
Davide Tuninetti	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
Brett Cope	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—
Michael Metcalf	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	PSU	◇	◇	—	—
	RSU	◇	◇	—	—

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

Severance and change in control

The terms as written in the agreements.

Brett Cope

President and Chief Executive Officer · Terms as described in the company’s compensation discussion · citing a 2026 filing

Severance multiple	◇
Change-in-control multiple	◇
Equity acceleration on change in control	◇
Benefits continuation on change in control	◇
Benefits continuation	◇
Non-compete period	◇
Non-solicit period	◇

Davide Tuninetti

Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer · Terms as described in the company’s compensation discussion · citing a 2026 filing

Non-compete period	◇
Non-solicit period	◇

Michael Metcalf

Executive Vice President, Chief Financial and Principal Accounting Officer · Terms as described in the company’s compensation discussion · citing a 2026 filing

Severance multiple	◇
Severance base	◇
Change-in-control multiple	◇
Change-in-control base	◇
Equity acceleration on change in control	◇
Benefits continuation on change in control	◇
Benefits continuation	◇
Non-compete period	◇
Non-solicit period	◇

Robert Callahan

Former Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer and Chief Information Officer · Terms as described in the company’s compensation discussion · citing a 2026 filing

Non-compete period	◇
Non-solicit period	◇

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
Christopher E. Cragg	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Richard E. Williams	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
James W. McGill	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Katheryn B. Curtis	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
John G. Stacey	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Mohit Singh	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Alaina K. Brooks	◇	◇	—	—	—	—	◇
Mark W. Smith	—	◇	—	—	—	—	◇

Brett A. Cope 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	◇
Lead independent director premium	◇
Audit committee chair	◇
Compensation committee chair	◇
Nominating and governance chair	◇

Equity is delivered as Restricted Stock.

Disclosed peer group

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

Fiscal 2025

Ameresco, Inc. AMRC
Belden, Inc. BDC
CECO Environmental CECO
Daktronics, Inc. DAKT
EnerSys ENS
Franklin Electric Company, Inc. FELE
Gibraltar Industries, Inc. ROCK
Littelfuse, Inc. LFUS
LSI Industries, Inc. LYTS
Matthews International Corp. MATW
Preformed Line Products Company PLPC
Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. STRL
Thermon Group Holdings, Inc. THR
Woodward, Inc. WWD

Say-on-pay history

Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.

Year	Meeting	Support	Votes for	Votes against	Abstentions
2025	February 18, 2026	=	◇	◇	◇
2024	February 19, 2025	=	◇	◇	◇
2023	February 14, 2024	=	◇	◇	◇
2022	February 15, 2023	=	◇	◇	◇
2021	February 16, 2022	=	◇	◇	◇
2020	February 17, 2021	=	◇	◇	◇
2019	February 19, 2020	=	◇	◇	◇
2018	February 20, 2019	=	◇	◇	◇
2017	February 21, 2018	=	◇	◇	◇
2016	February 22, 2017	=	◇	◇	◇
2015	February 24, 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 Powell Industries disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.

Peer benchmarking

Where Powell Industries 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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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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Citations

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181 figures on this page: 170 cited to the filing that reported them, 11 calculated from figures it prints.

170 cited to the filing

11 calculated from the filing

Documents cited

8-K, filed February 18, 2026
0000080420-26-000028
Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
DEF 14A, filed January 6, 2026
0001140361-26-000342
CEO Pay Ratio · Compensation Discussion and Analysis · DIRECTOR COMPENSATION FOR FISCAL 2025 · Director Compensation · and 3 more sections
8-K, filed February 19, 2025
0000080420-25-000034
Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders
DEF 14A, filed January 6, 2025
0001140361-25-000275
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE FOR FISCAL 2024, 2023 AND 2022
8-K, filed February 15, 2024
0000080420-24-000014
DEF 14A, filed January 5, 2024
0001140361-24-001009
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE FOR FISCAL 2023, 2022 AND 2021
8-K, filed February 16, 2023
0000080420-23-000011
8-K, filed February 17, 2022
0000080420-22-000010
8-K, filed February 18, 2021
0000080420-21-000016
8-K, filed February 21, 2020
0000080420-20-000008
8-K, filed February 22, 2019
0001193125-19-048366
8-K, filed February 22, 2018
0000080420-18-000009
8-K, filed February 23, 2017
0000080420-17-000004
8-K, filed February 25, 2016
0001193125-16-477896

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Peers Powell Industries discloses

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

Ameresco, Inc.Belden, Inc.CECO Environmental Daktronics, Inc.EnerSys Franklin Electric Company, Inc.Gibraltar Industries, Inc.Littelfuse, Inc.LSI Industries, Inc.Matthews International Corp.Preformed Line Products Company Sterling Infrastructure, Inc.Thermon Group Holdings, Inc.Woodward, Inc.

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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}
}