Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang will get first wage enhance in 10 years

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Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang received his first main wage bump since 2015.

A regulatory submitting from Nvidia Thursday confirmed the AI chipmaker elevated Huang’s base wage by roughly 50% to $1.49 million within the 2025 fiscal yr ended Jan. 26. (To make sure, the precise quantity Huang obtained for the yr was a lot greater— $344 million — on account of Nvidia’s hovering inventory value.)

“The CC [Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors] raised Mr. Huang’s whole goal pay by $7 million to align extra intently with the median of peer firm CEOs,” the corporate stated in its SEC submitting Thursday. The corporate wrote that Huang’s new wage “aligned with the seventy fifth percentile of friends.”

“The CC believed this was applicable in consideration of inner pay fairness with the bottom salaries of different NEOs [named executive officers, or top-paid executives whose compensation must be publicly disclosed] and because it represented Mr. Huang’s first base wage enhance in 10 years.”

Huang’s new wage extra intently matches up with these of fellow chipmaker executives Hock Tan, CEO of Broadcom (AVGO), and Lisa Su, CEO of Superior Micro Units (AMD).

The final time the CEO’s wage jumped within the double digits was in 2015, when it rose 19% to over $998,000.

Wage will be only a small a part of compensation for high-level tech executives, although. Whereas Huang had a decrease base pay than Microsoft’s (MSFT) Satya Nadella and Apple’s (AAPL) Tim Prepare dinner in fiscal yr 2024, the newest yr of knowledge out there for all three executives, he out-earned them when it comes to the complete package deal. Huang’s precise compensation was $234 million that yr. Nadella and Prepare dinner obtained $171 million and $169 million, respectively.

Whereas Huang had earned greater than these CEOs, his compensation was far beneath that of rival Broadcom’s CEO Hock Tan, who remodeled $1 billion in 2024.

Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft have taken turns because the world’s most precious firm.

Nvidia’s market cap has taken a success in 2025 on account of the main chip inventory’s 15% decline this yr. Its still-massive $2.78 trillion worth is behind Apple’s roughly $3.1 trillion and Microsoft’s $3.25 trillion.

Nvidia inventory remains to be up greater than 1,500% over the previous 5 years.