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HANCOCK WHITNEY CORPHWC

Latest proxy: 2026 · view on SEC ↗ · CIK 0000750577

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CEO total pay

$6,334,741

John M. Hairston · 2025

Say on pay

97%

Latest disclosed shareholder vote

CEO pay ratio

Item 402(u)

87 to 1

Median employee: $71,697

Compensation committee

CD&A

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.

Executive	Role	TotalYoY	Pay mix	Salary	Stock	Cash incentive	Other
John M. Hairston2025 compensation	President and CEO	$6,334,741↑ 10%	78% at-risk	$1,220,701	$2,970,256	$1,789,088	$153,293
Michael M. Achary2025 compensation	Chief Financial Officer	$2,453,815↑ 6%	71% at-risk	$630,137	$904,050	$769,619	$52,066
D. Shane Loper2025 compensation	Chief Operating Officer	$3,426,875↑ 20%	72% at-risk	$776,438	$1,195,562	$1,137,966	$112,537
Christopher S. Ziluca2025 compensation	Chief Credit Officer	$1,599,098↑ 4%	63% at-risk	$558,836	$570,066	$443,648	$26,548
Michael Otero2025 compensation	Chief Risk Officer	$1,490,308↑ 22%	64% at-risk	$493,836	$504,437	$392,046	$17,732

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CD&A excerpt

Compensation discussion & analysis

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The following Compensation Discussion and Analysis (“CD&A”) describes and analyzes our executive compensation philosophy and program in the context of the compensation paid during our 2025 fiscal year to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and our three other most highly-compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers at the end of the fiscal year (who are referred to herein as our named executive officers, or NEOs). Our fiscal year 2025 NEOs are: Name Title John M. Hairston President and CEO Michael M. Achary Chief Financial Officer D. Shane Loper Chief Operating Officer Christopher S. Ziluca Chief Credit Officer Michael Otero Chief Risk Officer Later in this proxy statement under the heading “Executive Compensation,” we have included tables containing specific information about the compensation earned by or paid to our NEOs in 2025. The discussion below is intended to summarize and explain the detailed information provided in those tables and to put that information into the context of our overall compensation program. We refer to the non-GAAP financial measures Adjusted Revenue, Adjusted Pre-Provision Net Revenue and Adjusted Earnings per S…

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Peer comparison

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Peer Group
13 members · 2 in ProxyMiner
BKU · BankUnited, Inc.BOKF · BOK FINANCIAL CORPCOLB · COLUMBIA BANKING SYSTEM, INC.CMRC · Commerce.com, Inc.FULT · FULTON FINANCIAL CORPGBCI · GLACIER BANCORP, INC.PB · PROSPERITY BANCSHARES INCSFNC · SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL CORPSSB · SouthState Bank CorpUMBF · UMB FINANCIAL CORPUTHR · UNITED THERAPEUTICS CorpUCB · UNITED COMMUNITY BANKS INCWTFC · WINTRUST FINANCIAL CORP

Governance

Policy guardrails

hedging
prohibited
“Prohibition on Hedging Transactions”
clawback
present
“Recoupment Policy”
stock ownership guidelines
present
“Executive Stock Ownership Requirements. Under our stock ownership guidelines as amended, effective January 1, 2022, our CEO must own Company common stock worth five times his base salary, and our other executive officers…”
change in control
Employment Contracts and Change in Control Agreements
“Employment Contracts and Change in Control Agreements”
compensation consultant
independent
“independent compensation consultant, the Compensation Committee determined that the base salaries of our NEOs were within the competitive range for peer executives”
compensation committee
Compensation Committee
“No modifications or discretion were utilized by the Compensation Committee.”

Performance markers

Metric facts

revenue
$679.9 million
“measures, refer to Appendix A to this proxy statement. 34 Highlights of 2025 Financial Results •Net income for the year ended December 31, 2025 increased to $486.1 million, or $5.67 per diluted common share, compared to …”
annual incentive payout
122.14%
“In addition to awards made under our annual cash incentive plan for corporate performance, the plan also allows for the Compensation Committee (for all officers) and the CEO (for officers other than himself) to recommend…”
say on pay
97%
“At our 2025 annual meeting of shareholders, 97% of the votes cast approved the compensation of our named executive officers, as discussed in the 2025 proxy statement.”
ceo pay ratio
87 to 1
“annual total compensation for such associate using the same methodology we use for our named executive officers as set forth in the 2025 Summary Compensation Table above. The total annual compensation of our median assoc…”
median employee compensation
$71,697
“make any assumptions, adjustments, or estimates with respect to W-2 Box 5 Wages, and we did not annualize the compensation for any associates that were not employed by us for all of 2025. We believe the use of W-2 Box 5 …”

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