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Starz main executive Jeff Hirsch saw a salary package of $6.75 cardinal for 2025, a transitional twelvemonth wherever nan institution separated from Lionsgate Studios.
Hirsch received a guidelines net of $1.16 million; $2.53 cardinal successful banal awards; and $2.95 cardinal successful inducement scheme compensation, according to a proxy connection revenge pinch nan SEC. There are nary year-earlier figures for comparison arsenic Starz and Lionsgate Studios conscionable separated successful May of 2025.
Starz besides group its first yearly shareholder gathering arsenic a standalone nationalist institution for May 7.
The board, which past autumn inked a caller three-year employment statement pinch Hirsch done nan extremity of 2028, noted his activity during nan separation, transportation connected financial goals and advancing nan its maturation strategy by rebuilding its contented library, greenlighting and producing nan first Starz-owned original series Fightland, securing co-commission partners and improving nan contented costs structure.
Starz laid disconnected astir 7% of its workforce successful March.
Proxies item nan salary of a company’s apical 5 highest paid executive officers. Hirsch’s squad includes Alison Hoffman, President of Starz Network, CFO Scott MacDonald, General Counsel Audrey Lee and EVP, Technology, Jason Wyric.
For 2025, Starz compensation array besides listed Jon Feltheimer and Jimmy Barge, main executive and main financial serviceman of nan aged Lionsgate and presently of Lionsgate Studios, who received pro-rata comp for nan twelvemonth up done nan divided of, respectively, $224k and $129k.
The proxy besides noted a one-time banal action assistance worthy $3 cardinal to Michael Burns arsenic good arsenic an yearly grant of performance-based restricted banal units worthy $500k to nan non-executive committee chair.
