David W. Copeland

2021

In 2021, David W. Copeland earned a total compensation of $1.7M as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at SM Energy Company, a 68% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Change in Pension Value and Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Earnings$115,279
Non-Equity Incentive Plan$586,472
Salary$418,908
Stock Awards$574,995
Other$17,542
Total$1,713,196

Copeland received $586.5K in non-equity incentive plan, accounting for 34% of the total pay in 2021.

Copeland also received $115.3K of change in pension value and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, $418.9K in salary, $575K in stock awards and $17.5K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, David W. Copeland's compensation ranked 6,687th out of 12,405 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Copeland earned more than 46.1% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
6,687
out of 12,405
46th
Division
Mining
163
out of 349
53rd
Major group
Oil And Gas Extraction
128
out of 226
43rd
Industry group
Crude Petroleum And Natural Gas
93
out of 163
43rd
Industry
Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas
93
out of 163
43rd

Pay ratio

David W. Copeland's Pay$1,713,196
Median Employee's Pay$188,989
Pay Ratio

9

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of David W. Copeland was $1,713,196.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at SM Energy Company was $188,989.

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

Source: SEC filing on April 14, 2022.

Copeland's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with David W. Copeland at SM Energy Company in 2021.

2021

Herbert Vogel

SM Energy Company

Chief Executive Officer

2021

A Pursell

SM Energy Company

Chief Financial Officer

2021

Lehman Newton

SM Energy Company

Senior Vice President, Operations

2021

Mary Lutey

SM Energy Company

Senior Vice President, Exploration, Development and EHS

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