David W. Copeland

2019

In 2019, David W. Copeland earned a total compensation of $1.6M as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at SM Energy Company, a 4% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$146,292
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$395,000
Salary$431,966
Stock Awards$654,935
Other$16,800
Total$1,644,992

Copeland received $654.9K in stock awards, accounting for 40% of the total pay in 2019.

Copeland also received $146.3K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $395K in non-equity incentive plan, $432K in salary and $16.8K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2019, David W. Copeland's compensation ranked 6,860th out of 13,971 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Copeland earned more than 50.9% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
6,860
out of 13,971
51st
Division
Mining
269
out of 514
48th
Major group
Oil And Gas Extraction
225
out of 384
41st
Industry group
Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas
156
out of 265
41st
Industry
Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas
156
out of 265
41st

Pay ratio

David W. Copeland's Pay$1,644,992
Median Employee's Pay$192,524
Pay Ratio

9

to 1

In 2019, the annual total compensation of David W. Copeland was $1,644,992.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at SM Energy Company was $192,524.

The ratio of David W. Copeland's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 9 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 17, 2020.

Copeland's colleagues

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Chief Operating Officer

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Chief Financial Officer

2019

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Senior Vice President, Operations

2019

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