Nvidia Boss Gets 45% Pay Bump, But Is The Billionaire Happy?

The gods of executive pay smiled on Nvidia's chief executive in the last full financial year, awarding him a 45 percent bump in total compensation.

Jenson Huang, the co-founder, president and CEO of the GPU kingpin, was given a pat on the back - in the financial sense - to the tune of $49,866,251 in Nvidia's fiscal 2025 ending January 26.

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This included a 50 percent year-on-year uplift in base salary to $1.486 million, eye-watering stock awards of $38.81 million, $6 million in the non-equity compensation plan, and $3.57 million for all other compensation.

Huang smashed his corporate targets for the year: revenues jumped 114 percent year-on-year to $130.5 billion, and operating income swelled 147 percent to $81.5 billion. Net profit, for anyone interested, jumped 145 percent to $72.88 billion.

Relative to other CEOs at lesser performing tech businesses, some Reg readers might almost be able to understand the compensation package Nvidia's big boss received. Some might not.

Nvidia finds itself in something of a sweet spot, selling GPUs to a datacenter industry that is booming off the back of AI training and inferencing. Whether that continues is partly dependent on enterprise customers buying AI services or licenses, something we're often told is happening.

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Corporate highlights, as recounted by Nvidia in the Proxy statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders [PDF] on June 25, 2025 - where the above numbers are contained – also include the mass-scale production of the Blackwell chip, "purpose-built for the new era of agentic and reasoning AI applications"; the launch of the GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs; and the proliferation of agentic AI with new Nvidia NIMs, AI Blueprints, and Nemotron family of models.

Nvidia spent $53.8 billion on stock repurchases in the last financial year and paid out $2.4 billion in dividends to shareholders.

Exec generals working for the CEO were also richly rewarded for their services in Nvidia's fiscal 2025. CFO Colette Kris received a compensation package of $21.4 million, up from $13.27 million in the prior year, and Ajay Puri, head of worldwide field ops was awarded $21.6 million versus $13.6 million.

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As for the average Joes and Janes at the corporation? The median employee total compensation package was $301,233. As such, Nvidia said its "Fiscal 2025 CEO to median employee pay ratio was 166:1."

Nestled among that workforce are the children of Huang. "The daughter and son of Jen-Hsun Huang, our President and CEO and a member of our Board, are employed by the Company," Nvidia says in the document.

"The total compensation for Fiscal 2025 of the daughter and son of Mr. Huang was approximately $1,130,000 and $530,000, respectively," the Proxy Statement adds.

Huang himself has a net worth of $110.2 billion. He owns a 3.77 percent shareholding of Nvidia stock. ®