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Chris Kempczinski
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Chris Kempczinski

Chairman & CEO · McDonald’s MCD
$20.6M
FY2025 total compensation
Filed · DEF 14A

McDonald’s chairman and CEO since 2019, a former consumer-goods marketer overseeing the world’s largest restaurant chain and its loyalty-and-value playbook.

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CEO since2019
Born1968
Pay rank#40 of 50 tracked
Share Chris Kempczinski's pay$20.6M in FY2025 — free, straight from the SEC proxy.

Pay vs performance

what happened while he earned it
CEO compensation$20.6M
Stock · since 2024+6.8%
S&P 500 · since 2024+40.5%
Revenue · YoY+3.7%
EPS · YoY+4.9%
CEO tenure7 yrs

No score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.

Why this pay?

  • His fiscal 2025 pay was $20.6 million, split roughly evenly between restricted stock and options on top of a $1.55 million salary and a cash incentive. His 2024 move to also chair the board drew a shareholder proposal objecting to a CEO overseeing himself.

Quick facts

CEO since2019
PreviouslyMcDonald’s
Largest pay componentStock & options · 78%
Pay rank (tracked)#40 of 50
EducationDuke University (BA); Harvard Business School (MBA)

Compensation breakdown

DEF 14A
total · FY2025$20,574,525
Salary$1,550,000
Cash incentive$2,367,160
Stock awards$8,000,215
Option awards$8,000,066
All other comp$657,084
Total$20,574,525

Equity is split almost exactly 50/50 between RSUs and options. Source: McDonald’s 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →

Compensation history

salary + cash vs stock, from the proxies
$20.6MFY2025
Stock & optionsSalary & cashOther· prior years n/a

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Career

2019-presentChairman & CEO · McDonald’s
2016-2019President, McDonald’s USA · McDonald’s

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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from McDonald’s's Summary Compensation Table for FY2025(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: Bob Coscarelli / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.