- Jensen Huang’s salary rose 59%, the total compensation rose 46%
- Other Execs got stable wages but much higher total compensation packages
- Nvidia’s last full-year income amounted to $ 130.5 billion, an increase of 114% year-over-year
Despite being the company’s CEO since its founding in 1993, Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang has withdrawn the same salary from the company for a number of years – but a recent SEC archiving has revealed Huang just got his big first pay rise in a decade.
Increasing from $ 996,514 in 2024 and $ 996,832 in 2023, Huang received a salary of $ 1,486,199 in the 2025 financial year, marking a non-unwilling increase of 49% over the year for the year for the year.
In fact, various other components are Huang’s total compensation, the largest being $ 38.8 million in stock prices in 2025, leaving him with a hefty $ 49,866,251 package at the end of the year.
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In addition to the salary increase, rising in other compensation rises that the NVIDIA leader got almost $ 15.7 million more by 2025 compared to 2024, marking an equally healthy 46% jump.
Salaries for CFO Colette M Kress, worldwide field operations SVP Ajay K Puri, Operations EVP Debora Shoquist and Attorney General and Secretary EVP Timothy S teter remained stable year to year, but the total compensation for the four named directors (NEOS) increased by 59-74%.
However, it is not only compensations that rise in the past year. In February, Nvidia declared a staggering 114% growth in annual revenue compared to the previous year and noticed an increase of 78% over the year for its turnover in the fourth quarter alone.
Annual revenue amounted to $ 130.5 billion compared to $ 60.9 billion the year before, and $ 27.0 billion and $ 26.9 billion in the previous two years.
Earlier in 2024, NVIDIA’s total market capital exceeded $ 3.5 trillion, making it the world’s most valuable company for a short period of time. It is now at $ 2,723 trillion, with billions lost to trade war -induced uncertainty and other natural causes.
