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Compensation of Named Executive Officers
The following table shows the compensation paid during all of 2007 by Windstream to Windstream’s
President and Chief Executive Officer, Windstream’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and
Windstream’s other three most highly compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers on
December 31, 2007. The table also shows the compensation for 2007 paid by Windstream to Mr. Keith Paglusch
who served as Chief Operating Officer until August 18, 2007.
SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE
Name and
Principal Position Year Salary
($)
(1)
Bonus
($)
Stock
Awards
($)
(2)(3)
Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation
($)
Change in
Pension Value
and Non-
qualified
Deferred
Compensation
Earnings
($)
(4)
All Other
Compensation
($)
(5)
Total
($)
Jeffery R. Gardner
President and
CEO
2007
2006
884,615
700,000
-0-
315,362
3,997,438
1,050,537
774,474
1,292,845
166,688
305,605
18,100
130,003
5,841,315
3,794,352
Brent Whittington
EVP and CFO
2007
2006
394,231
295,833
-0-
17,546
561,155
154,074
240,948
214,957
-0-
392
18,591
13,834
1,214,925
696,636
John P. Fletcher
EVP, General
Counsel &
Secretary
2007
2006
371,154
284,375
-0-
-0-
463,848
131,943
225,888
201,809
-0-
-0-
20,228
9,438
1,081,118
627,565
Robert G. Clancy
SVP-Treasurer
2007 241,923 -0- 250,090 94,658 10,427 23,082 620,180
Susan Bradley
SVP-Human
Resources
2007 213,846 -0- 266,081 92,507 32,591 19,930 624,955
Keith D. Paglusch
Former COO
2007
2006
274,038
281,250
-0-
-0-
-0-
138,887
-0-
232,857
-0-
-0-
795,864
164,654
1,069,902
817,648
(1) Amount for Mr. Paglusch reflects salary paid until his departure from the Company on August 18, 2007.
Mr. Clancy and Ms. Bradley were not named executive officers for 2006.
(2) All stock award amounts for restricted stock granted by Windstream reflect 2007 compensation expense
calculated in accordance with SFAS 123(R) as described in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year
ended December 31, 2007. Amounts do not include $295,987 of 2007 expense prior to and $138,887 of 2006
expense reversed upon Mr. Paglusch’s departure from the Company.
(3) No options have been granted by Windstream.
(4) Amounts for Messrs. Gardner, Clancy and Ms. Bradley include $99,261, $10,427, and $32,591,
respectively, for increase in pension value, but do not include a decrease in pension value of $1,050 for
Mr. Whittington. Amounts for Mr. Gardner include $67,427 for above market (only if the rate of interest exceeds
120% of the applicable long-term rate of the Internal Revenue Code) earnings on non-qualified deferred
compensation.
(5) “All Other Compensation” in 2007 includes (i) the valuation of the individual’s personal use of company
plane based on the incremental cost to the company of such usage, which primarily includes costs for fuel,
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