Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang received his first significant salary boost in 10 years, as a regulatory filing revealed the AI chipmaker raised his base pay by 50% to $1.49 million for the 2025 fiscal year, highlighting a major shift in Nvidia executive compensation.
Huang’s actual earnings were much higher $344 million thanks to Nvidia’s soaring stock price.
The company’s Compensation Committee raised Huang’s total target pay by $7 million to align with other CEO salaries in the industry.
The new salary matches the 75th percentile of peers, aligning Huang with chipmaker CEOs like Hock Tan of Broadcom (AVGO) and Lisa Su of AMD (AMD).
This salary increase marks Huang’s first base salary hike since 2015, when his pay rose by 19% to $998,000.
For high-level tech executives, salary is often just a small portion of total compensation. In fiscal year 2024, Huang out-earned other CEOs, including Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Apple’s Tim Cook, with a full Nvidia executive compensation package totaling $234 million.
However, Huang’s earnings still lag behind Broadcom’s Tan, who earned over $1 billion in 2024.
Despite this, Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft have all held the title of the world’s most valuable company, with Nvidia executive compensation reflecting the firm’s massive growth and market dominance.
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