A month earlier than its annual shareholder assembly, main movie show chain Cinemark disclosed its senior government salaries, with its high government seeing his pay enhance by 10% for 2025.
Sean Gamble, 51, who has led the Exhibitor chain as CEO for the previous 4 years, noticed his whole compensation (together with inventory awards and incentive plan pay) rise to $10.8 million final yr, Exhibitor disclosed in a securities submitting Wednesday. That is up from $9.8 million in 2024 and $8.8 million in 2023.
Melissa Thomas, Cinemark’s chief monetary officer who joined the theater chain from Groupon 5 years in the past, earned a wage of $3.36 million, up from $2.94 million in 2024 and $2.69 million in 2023.
The chain, which competes with longtime chief AMC Theaters in addition to Regal, has not too long ago gained market share as much as about 15 p.c of the home field workplace as AMC struggles with debt and Regal emerges from chapter safety beneath new administration. It operates 496 cinemas with 5,637 screens in the US and Latin America.
Cinemark additionally managed to develop its month-to-month membership program, Film Membership, to 1.45 million subscribers, including recurring income to the combo that features 193 million in attendance income final yr domestically and overseas. The Plano, Texas-based exhibitor additionally touted $1.2 billion in meals and beverage income, which it stated marks an all-time excessive.
“2025 was a pivotal yr for Cinemark as we totally repaid our remaining pandemic-related debt whereas strategically investing $219 million in capital expenditures in theater preservation and enchancment tasks to keep up a high-quality circuit,” Gamble wrote within the April 1 letter to shareholders. “Moreover, our robust money place and free money stream era allowed us to return $315 million to shareholders within the type of dividends and share repurchases.”
The exhibitor additionally disclosed its CEO-to-employee pay ratio (923 to 1) in its securities submitting, noting that 69 p.c of staff are part-time, a lot of whom are paid hourly, and that the median salaried worker obtained a wage of $11,718.