- Jensen Huang’s salary increased by 59%, general compensation increased by 46%
- Other executives obtained stable salaries but much higher general compensation packages
- Nvidia’s last income throughout the year were $ 130.5 billion, 114% more after year
Despite being the company’s CEO since its foundation in 1993, the CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has been drawing the same salary of the company for several years, however, a recent presentation of the SEC has revealed that Huang has just obtained its first salary increase in a decade.
Increased from $ 996,514 in 2024 and $ 996,832 in 2023, Huang received a salary of $ 1,486,199 in fiscal year 2025, marking a non -significant increase of 49% year after year.
Actually, several other components constitute the total compensation of Huang, the largest is $ 38.8 million in shares in 2025, leaving it with a strong package of $ 49,866,251 at the end of the year.
Jensen Huang salary increase
In addition to the salary increase, the increases in another compensation saw the NVIDIA leader obtain almost $ 15.7 million in 2025 compared to 2024, marking an equally healthy jump of 46%.
Salaries for CFO Colette M Kress, SVP Worldwide Field Operations Ajay K Puri, Evp Debora Shoquist operations and the general advisor and Evp Timothy S Teter Secretary remained stable year after year, but the total compensation of the four executive officials appointed (NEO) increased by 59-74%.
However, not only compensation have increased in the last year. In February, Nvidia declared an amazing 114% growth in annual income compared to the previous year, pointing out an increase of 78% year after year to its revenue in the fourth quarter alone.
The annual income was $ 130.5 billion, compared to $ 60.9 billion the previous year, and $ 27.0 billion and $ 26.9 billion in the previous two years.
At the beginning of 2024, the total market cover of Nvidia exceeded $ 3.5 billion, which makes it the most valuable company in the world for a short period of time. That is now $ 2,723 billion, with billions lost due to uncertainty induced by the commercial war and other natural causes.
