Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets first pay raise in a decade, now earns $49.8 million

[midian182]

In a nutshell: Most of us wouldn't be happy about not receiving a pay raise for a decade, but that's what Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has experienced over the last ten years at Nvidia. The caveat, of course, is that he's become one of the richest people in the planet thanks to the company's skyrocketing stock price. Adding to his fortune is his first base salary increase since 2015 – a hefty 49% jump to $1.5 million.

Nvidia's stock price was around $0.50 at the start of 2015. Thanks to Team Green providing most of the hardware powering the generative AI revolution, its stock is currently $111.61, an increase of 22,222%.

Huang's base salary has remained at around $1 million per year for most of that time. Like most CEOs, Huang's wealth comes from his stake in the company he runs; in this case, it's 3.5%, which is currently worth around $94 billion.

According to a proxy filing with the SEC yesterday, Nvidia's compensation committee raised Huang's total target pay by $7 million to align more closely with the median of peer company CEOs. This includes a 50% hike in base salary to $1.5 million.

Huang also saw his variable cash increase by 50% to $1 million, while stock awards jumped to $38.8 million.

Click to expand

Huang's compensation also included $3.5 million in residential, security, and consultation fees, driver services, security monitoring, and car expenses. The amount increased $1.3 million compared to the previous year. Nvidia says the money is necessary due to Huang's high-profile nature.

In total, Huang's total compensation for Fiscal 2025 was $49,866,251. For comparison, the median employee's total compensation for the same period was $301,233.

The committee wrote that the increase in base salary was Huang's first in ten years, adding that the amount was "appropriate in consideration of internal pay equity with the base salaries of other NEOs."

According to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index, Huang is currently the 17th wealthiest person in the world with a fortune of $97.9 billion. Like most other tech bosses on the list, the amount has fallen this year – down $16.4 billion in Huang's case. That's better than Elon Musk, whose net worth has dropped by $101 billion in 2025, though he still tops the list with a valuation of $332 billion.

Permalink to story:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets first pay raise in a decade, now earns $49.8 million

 

[yRaz]

I didn't need another reason to over pay for a GPU, but I guess I have one anyway.

 

[Haaky]

Yea and what?
Are we suppose to feel sorry for this guy.
Been ripping off his customers for years.
Great GPU, and way over priced

 

[Squid Surprise]

Whatever you think of Nvidia, Jensen has made them one of the wealthiest and influential in the world - he deserves whatever salary he gets…

 

[oasked]

An average salary of $300k+, I'm clearly in the wrong industry.

Jenson's managed to make his whole team rich, good for him. If you don't like the product (I don't at the moment), buy AMD instead.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Yea and what?
Are we suppose to feel sorry for this guy.
Been ripping off his customers for years.
Great GPU, and way over priced

Hey, at least he's not giving himself $56 billion in compensation while selling the originally anticipated $40k Cybertruck as a $100k Cybertruck instead. LoL

 

[Haaky]

Hey, at least he's not giving himself $56 billion in compensation while selling the originally anticipated $40k Cybertruck as a $100k Cybertruck instead. LoL

Very good point. All these guys are all cut from the same cloth. There greedy and just get more greedy. Oh and you would think with all there money they could get a proper hair cut and dress alot better.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Very good point. All these guys are all cut from the same cloth. There greedy and just get more greedy. Oh and you would think with all there money they could get a proper hair cut and dress alot better.

Not everyone cares about clothing style or fancy hair. Richard Stallman anyone?

Whatever you think of Nvidia, Jensen has made them one of the wealthiest and influential in the world - he deserves whatever salary he gets…

That's what people are not seeing here. 10 years ago nvidia's market cap was $11.9 billion. Today it's $2.8 TRILLION, and peaked at over $3.5 trillion. And his employees are all making bank too.

 

[Haaky]

Yea well sure there all making bank. When there overcharging for there GPUs'

 

[RudyBob]

I watched this man speak at the White House. I was impressed

 

[Squid Surprise]

Yea well sure there all making bank. When there overcharging for there GPUs'

Depends on your definition of “over charge”… if it’s “more money than I think is proper” then yes… but if it’s the far more accurate “price that correlates with demand”, then, if anything, they’re underpriced…

 

[airbornex]

The security and driver perks costing millions make sense when you consider he’s basically a walking, talking $100 billion asset to the company.

 

[scoffer]

Well, I guess that if he lives in the USA he should be able to afford to buy a dozen eggs now.

 

[mistyrain]

I think the calculation of the increase from 0.50 cents and the 22000 % s not accurate. They made a split of the stock 10-1. If not , the stock would have been 1 100 now not 110. So the % is muuuch more.

 

[Megalomaniac]

Huang has all of you who rushed out to buy the RTX GPU to thank.

How much did you overpay?

 

[Megalomaniac]

Normally I'd say "he deserves it" but when I think about what I went through to get my 5090FE at MSRP, and then I think about how Apple killed lines and scalping simply by forcing preorders - then I say to myself: NO, he really doesn't deserve it.

Huang could set up a system in a week that would allow potential buyers to buy Nvidia products at MSRP and completely kill the scalpers in most regions of importance.

 

[onebignerd]

The guy has a net worth of 97 billion! Cry me a Niagara falls, fill the Grand Canyon with the blood of your bleeding hearts, play endless violin concertos on your tiny violins, oh how he has suffered so.

Forgive me, I must return to my extravagant five figure lifestyle...sorry for flaunting it so in the midst of your financial ruin.

 

[Squid Surprise]

The guy has a net worth of 97 billion! Cry me a Niagara falls, fill the Grand Canyon with the blood of your bleeding hearts, play endless violin concertos on your tiny violins, oh how he has suffered so.

Forgive me, I must return to my extravagant five figure lifestyle...sorry for flaunting it so in the midst of your financial ruin.

We're not crying... the article is about him getting a pay raise... and whether he deserves it... whether he's already wealthy is irrelevant - although in this case, since his wealth derives from the company he MADE VALUABLE, I'd say he's worth just about any raise they give him.

 

[highwind]

Very good point. All these guys are all cut from the same cloth. There greedy and just get more greedy. Oh and you would think with all there money they could get a proper hair cut and dress alot better.

The list shows Bill Gates at number 6 with a net worth of 166 billions. He is said to have donated up to 100 billions by now.

Warren Buffet, number 7 on the list with the same net worth of 166 billions is said to have donated as much as 60 billions by now.

You might check the meaning of the word „greedy“ as it seems likely you just confused it with „successfull“…

 

[BogdanR]

Finally!!!! Maybe now Huang can buy himself a nice, decent jacket.