---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000833079-21-000170"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MTH"
cik: "0000833079"
company_name: "Meritage Homes CORP"
filed_at: "2021-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T23:56:08.235672+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Meritage Homes raises 2022 executive compensation; appoints new Principal Accounting Officer

## Summary
- CEO Phillippe Lord: base salary $900K, target cash bonus $2.25M, equity targets $1.8M each.
- CFO Hilla Sferruzza: base salary $725K, target cash bonus $906K, equity targets $725K each.
- COO Clinton Szubinski: base salary $650K, target cash bonus $1.3M, equity targets $650K each.
- Chief People Officer Javier Feliciano: base $430K, target bonus $322.5K, equity targets $268.75K.
- Alison L. Sasser appointed Principal Accounting Officer eff. Jan 1, 2022; salary +~$40K, bonus target 60% of base.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000833079-21-000170
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MTH
- cik: 0000833079
- company_name: Meritage Homes CORP
- filed_at: 2021-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307921000170/0000833079-21-000170-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307921000170/mth-20211214.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000833079-21-000170.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Hilla Sferruzza changed role as Principal Accounting Officer at Meritage Homes CORP.
  - Action: relinquish
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: Hilla Sferruzza, the Company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer will relinquish the Principal Accounting Officer position as of the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307921000170/0000833079-21-000170-index.htm
- Executive change
  Alison L. Sasser was appointed as Principal Accounting Officer at Meritage Homes CORP.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Principal Accounting Officer
  source text: effective as of January 1, 2022 (the “Effective Date”), Alison L. Sasser, who has been serving as the Company’s Vice President and Corporate Controller, has been appointed to the additional position of Principal Accounting Officer.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/833079/000083307921000170/0000833079-21-000170-index.htm

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