Opening its proxy statement…Reading the pay tables…Finding what shareholders vote on…
GTMZoomInfo Technologies Inc.
Pay and votes (proxy statement)
Before its yearly shareholder meeting, a company sends out a proxy statement, filed with the SEC as a DEF 14A. It says what shareholders will vote on, who sits on the board, and how the top managers are paid, set against how the shares did. Here are the key parts of ZoomInfo Technologies's latest one. Open the full statement.
The yearly meeting
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Shareholders meet on May 14, 2026 to vote. Anyone who owns shares on the record date can vote, usually online, even without attending.
Audit firm put forward for approval: KPMG LLP
Proxy statement filed Mar 26, 2026.
The boss's pay next to a typical employee's
The chief executive was paid about 209× what the employee in the exact middle of the company's pay scale earned (the CEO pay ratio).
Each square is one typical employee's yearly pay; together they add up to the chief executive's. The red square is one employee for scale. Ratios vary a lot between industries: a company with many part-time or overseas workers has a lower middle wage.
“Schuck, from the Summary Compensation Table above, was $33,297,747, and the annual total compensation for our median-compensated employee was $159,305, resulting in an estimated pay ratio of 209:1.”
What shareholders vote on
- 1ELECTION OF DIRECTORSShareholders vote on who sits on the board, the people who oversee the managers on their behalf.
- 2RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMShareholders confirm the outside firm that checks the accounts.
- 3ADVISORY NON-BINDING VOTE ON COMPENSATION OF NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS"Say on pay": shareholders give their view on how the top managers are paid. The vote is advisory, so the board doesn't have to follow it.
Titles as written in the statement. The board's recommendation is shown only where candor found it clearly stated.
Pay next to how the shares did
Since 2022, companies must show their bosses' pay next to how shareholders did. Two pay figures are given: the pay the board set for the year (from the summary pay table), and “compensation actually paid”, which re-values share awards at today's share price, so it rises and falls with the stock and can even be negative. Tap a year.
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Pay set for the year Actually paid (re-valued) Negative: share awards lost value
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ZoomInfo Technologies A group of similar companies it picked
Year to Dec 31, 2025 · chief executive: Mr. Schuck
Pay set for the chief executive: $33.3M
Actually paid, re-valued: $35.3M
Other top managers, on average: $4.8M
$100 in its shares became: $21 (similar companies: $258)
Profit (net income): $124.2M
The measure it ties pay to (AOI): $445.9M
Read straight from the tagged “pay versus performance” table in the proxy statement. The $100 figures assume $100 was invested at the start of the first year shown, with dividends reinvested.