Darden Restaurants Executive Compensation
Darden Restaurants is a publicly traded company in the Consumer sector.
Named Executive Officers — FY2024
Compensation Analysis
Computed directly from SEC-sourced figures tracked on this page — not a general description.
Darden Restaurants discloses FY2024 compensation for 6 named executive officers, totaling $31.9M. Ricardo Cardenas, the Executive Officer, accounts for 44% of that combined total.
Ricardo Cardenas's total compensation rose 17% year-over-year, from $12.0M in FY2023 to $14.0M in FY2024.
Cash compensation (salary plus bonus) made up 16% of Darden Restaurants's FY2024 tracked executive pay, with stock awards accounting for 63%. That's notably more stock-weighted than the typical Consumer company in this dataset, where stock awards average 17% of tracked pay.
Among 68 other Consumer companies in this dataset, Darden Restaurants's combined tracked executive pay of $31.9M ranks in the 78th percentile (industry median: $17.0M). Its highest-paid executive, Ricardo Cardenas, ranks in the 74th percentile for top-executive pay in the sector (industry median: $9.3M).