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CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL INC /DECHH

Latest proxy: 2026 · view on SEC ↗ · CIK 0001046311

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CEO total pay

$8,074,700

Patrick Pacious · 2025

Say on pay

Not disclosed

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CEO pay ratio

Item 402(u)

81 to 1

Median employee: $99,658

Compensation committee

CD&A

Human Capital and Compensation Committee

Per the latest proxy

Filings indexed: 2 · 2026 · 2025

Executive pay

What did they pay them?

From the Summary Compensation Table. Pay mix and YoY are computed from these rows.

ExecutiveRoleTotalYoYPay mixSalaryStockCash incentiveOther
Patrick Pacious2025 compensation
President and Chief Executive Officer
$8,074,700↑ 4%
80% at-risk
$1,288,462$4,000,098$2,464,423$311,727
Scott Oaksmith2025 compensation
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
$3,390,506↑ 37%
78% at-risk
$657,692$2,000,049$630,692$102,073
Dominic Dragisich2025 compensation
EVP, Operations & Chief Global Brand Officer
$4,230,770↓ 6%
79% at-risk
$750,000$2,500,062$827,461$153,247
Simone Wu2025 compensation
SVP, Gen Counsel and Secretary
$2,214,696↑ 6%
69% at-risk
$585,000$1,200,030$335,205$94,461
Patrick Cimerola2025 compensation
Chief Human Resources Officer
$1,772,233
66% at-risk
$500,000$890,137$286,500$95,596

Pay mix: base cash incentive equity other

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CD&A excerpt

Compensation discussion & analysis

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This Compensation Discussion and Analysis ("CD&A") describes our executive compensation philosophy, summarizes the principles of our executive compensation program and analyzes our pay decisions for 2025. It also provides context for the data we present in the compensation tables below. Executive SummaryChoice is committed to delivering high performance and long-term value creation for shareholders and franchisees, with a pay-for-performance executive compensation program that reflects leadership execution and results. Through disciplined capital allocation and strategic decision-making, Choice’s leadership delivered operating income and enterprise revenue at 99.2% of plan in 2026 despite industry-wide RevPAR pressure, macroeconomic headwinds, and deliberate portfolio optimization actions taken to strengthen the business for the long term. Executive compensation is structured through a balanced mix of fixed and variable pay to reward performance, align executives with shareholder outcomes, and support sustained value creation.Management’s strategic focus on brand growth, the guest and franchisee value proposition, platform expansion, and talent has driven consistent execution acros…

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Governance

Policy guardrails

  • compensation consultant

    independent

    “Independent Compensation Consultant”

  • compensation committee

    Human Capital and Compensation Committee

    “THE HUMAN CAPITAL AND COMPENSATION COMMITTEE”

  • hedging

    prohibited

    “The Company has an Insider Trading Policy that prohibits all associates (which includes all NEOs and other Choice employees, directors, contract staff and consultants) from engaging in hedging transactions involving Comp…”

  • pledging

    prohibited

    “All associates, other than directors, are prohibited from holding shares in a margin account or pledging shares as collateral for a loan.”

  • clawback

    present

    “Clawback Policy gives the Committee the right to require the Company’s senior executives, including NEOs, to pay back certain previously distributed incentive compensation in the event that the Company materially restate…”

  • stock ownership guidelines

    present

    “Our Executive Share Ownership Guidelines are intended to align the interests and actions of executives with the interests of shareholders and promote our longstanding commitment to sound corporate governance.”

  • change in control

    Severance and Change in Control Arrangements

    “Severance and Change in Control Arrangements”

Performance markers

Metric facts

  • revenue

    $975.7 million

    “adjustments, operating income for purposes of determining payouts under the 2025 MIP Plans was $519.0 million. 50 Corporate Revenue Results Corporate revenue represents total enterprise revenue generated across the Compa…”

  • operating income

    $519.0 million

    “results that were generally in line with expectations despite softer industry demand trends and continued investment in brand marketing and platform initiatives. (2)Funding for the strategic initiatives portion of the bo…”

  • ceo pay ratio

    81 to 1

    “of our CEO to the annual total compensation of the median of our other employees. The annual total compensation of our CEO for 2025, as reflected in the Summary Compensation Table, was $8,074,700. The annual total compen…”

  • median employee compensation

    $99,658

    “provide below, as required by SEC rules, the ratio of the annual total compensation of our CEO to the annual total compensation of the median of our other employees. The annual total compensation of our CEO for 2025, as …”

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