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Perella Weinberg Partners Executive Compensation (FY25)
PWP · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2022 to 2025
Data as of September 7, 2026Latest filing (DEF 14A): April 10, 2026
101 figures on this page: 100 cited to the filing that reported them, 1 calculated from figures it prints. See the citations
Andrew Bednar was paid $5,147,053 in total compensation as Chief Executive Officer for fiscal 2025, and compared with the $27,381,184 reported for fiscal 2024, Bednar's total was 81.2% lower. The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2025 is 17:1, against median employee compensation of $301,104. Shareholders supported the say-on-pay proposal with 86.8% of votes cast including abstentions in favor at the meeting held May 28, 2025 for fiscal 2024. The disclosed peer group names Evercore Inc., Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Lazard, Inc., Moelis & Company and PJT Partners Inc.
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 — Andrew Bednar: $27,381,184 → $5,147,053 (81.2% lower)
Frequently asked questions
Answers drawn from the data on this page.
Who is Perella Weinberg Partners' chief executive and what were they paid?
Andrew Bednar was paid $5,147,053 in total compensation as Chief Executive Officer for fiscal 2025. Compared with the $27,381,184 reported for fiscal 2024, Bednar's total was 81.2% lower.
What was Perella Weinberg Partners' say-on-pay result?
Shareholders supported the say-on-pay proposal with 86.8% of votes cast including abstentions in favor at the meeting held May 28, 2025 for fiscal 2024.
Which companies are in Perella Weinberg Partners' peer group?
The disclosed peer group names Evercore Inc., Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Lazard, Inc., Moelis & Company and PJT Partners Inc.
What is Perella Weinberg Partners' chief executive pay ratio?
The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2025 is 17:1, against median employee compensation of $301,104.
Executive compensation
Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2022
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter A. Weinberg Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Andrew Bednar Co-President | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Dietrich Becker Co-President | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2023
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Bednar Chief Executive Officer | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Peter Weinberg Chairman | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Dietrich Becker President | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2024
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Bednar Chief Executive Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Dietrich Becker President | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Peter Weinberg Chairman | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexandra Gottschalk Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
Fiscal 2025
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dietrich Becker President | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Andrew Bednar Chief Executive Officer | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexandra Gottschalk Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Peter Weinberg Chairman | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ | ◇ |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandra Gottschalk | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Bednar | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
| Alexandra Gottschalk | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
| Dietrich Becker | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
| Peter Weinberg | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jane C. Sherburne | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Jorma Ollila | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Kristin W. Mugford | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Elizabeth (Beth) Cogan Fascitelli | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Houda Dabboussi | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
R. Edwin Bennett | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Peter A. Weinberg, Andrew Bednar, Dietrich Becker, Robert K. Steel and Joseph R. Perella 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 | ◇ |
Disclosed peer group
The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.
Fiscal 2025
- Evercore Inc. EVR
- Houlihan Lokey, Inc. HLI
- Lazard, Inc. LAZ
- Moelis & Company MC
- PJT Partners Inc. PJT
Say-on-pay history
Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
| Year | Meeting | Support | Votes for | Votes against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | May 28, 2025 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
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 Perella Weinberg Partners disclosed, and it is free. Everything below is our analysis of those facts, and it is not.
Peer benchmarking
Where Perella Weinberg Partners 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.
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101 figures on this page: 100 cited to the filing that reported them, 1 calculated from figures it prints.
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1 calculated from the filing
Documents cited
- 0001777835-26-000029CEO Pay Ratio · DIRECTOR COMPENSATION · Director Compensation Table for · Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year End for · and 1 more section
- 0001777835-25-000108
- 0001777835-25-000081Summary Compensation Table
- 0001777835-24-000067Summary Compensation Table for 2023
- 0001777835-23-000083Summary Compensation Table for 2022
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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}
}