Satya Nadella took home $42.9mn last fiscal, gets 66% raise

San Francisco: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earned $42.9 million in total compensation for the fiscal year 2019 — 66 percent raise from the prior fiscal year, the company has announced.
Nadella received a $1 million base salary jump and an increase in stocks.
“Nadella’s strategic leadership, including his efforts to strengthen trust with customers, drive for a company-wide culture change, and successful entry and expansion into new technologies and markets,” Microsoft’s independent directors said in a proxy statement released on Wednesday.
When he took over from Steve Ballmer in 2014, Nadella took home $84.3 million which is the highest earnings in a fiscal year for him so far.
“For the fiscal year 2019, the annual total compensation for the median employee of the Company (other than our CEO) was $172,512,” the company said.
“The past fiscal year offered another record year for financial performance, and Microsoft delivered strong results for our shareholders, including a return of $30.9 billion in the form of share repurchases and dividends,” wrote the board of directors.