Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will get first wage lift in a decade

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has made tens of billions of greenbacks in recent times from his stake within the chipmaker, however he is getting his first wage build up in a decade.

Huang’s base wage rose to $1.5 million, a 49% build up from 2024, in line with a proxy submitting with the SEC on Thursday. His variable money additionally went up through $1 million, or 50%, from the 2024 fiscal yr. Stock awards grew to $38.8 million, bringing general pay to $49.9 million.

The reimbursement committee “believed this was appropriate in consideration of internal pay equity with the base salaries” of alternative best executives, the submitting mentioned, and “it represented Mr. Huang’s first base salary increase in 10 years.”

Nvidia is in the middle of a increase that is became it into one of the precious firms on the planet, due to its graphics processing gadgets (GPUs) that energy probably the most robust synthetic intelligence fashions and workloads. Revenue within the 2025 fiscal yr jumped 114% to $130.5 billion, the corporate reported in February.

The corporate’s inventory worth larger greater than ninefold between the tip of 2022 and the tip of remaining yr. Huang’s kind of 3.5% stake is these days value about $94 billion.

Huang’s 2025 pay additionally incorporated $3.5 million in residential safety and session charges and motive force services and products, the corporate mentioned within the submitting. In the former yr, residential safety and session charges for Huang totaled $2.2 million. 

Google in a contemporary submitting mentioned it paid $8.27 million for CEO Sundar Pichai’s non-public safety and trip, representing a 22% build up from the yr prior.

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