{"id":1031562,"date":"2026-08-27T11:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031562"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:53:29","slug":"microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-saw-a-record-jump-in-his-annual-salary-in-2025-a-year-later-the-signal-from-this-annual-package-is-clear-and-it-is-that-microsoft-board-thinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-saw-a-record-jump-in-his-annual-salary-in-2025-a-year-later-the-signal-from-this-annual-package-is-clear-and-it-is-that-microsoft-board-thinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saw a record jump in his annual salary in 2025, a year later the signal from this annual package is clear, and it is that Microsoft Board thinks &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a record total compensation package of about $96.5 million during fiscal year 2025. His latest pay package was up around 22% from $79.1 million a year earlier. The increase came as Microsoft reported higher revenue, operating income and cloud growth, with the company\u2019s board citing \u201cexceptional progress in artificial intelligence\u201d and saying Nadella\u2019s leadership had positioned Microsoft as a clear AI leader amid a generational technology shift.<\/p>\n<p>The structure of Nadella\u2019s pay package also mirrors the company\u2019s priorities. His 2025 package was worth more than $84 million in stock awards, $2.5 million base salary and $9.5 million in cash bonuses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a record total compensation package of about $96.5 million during fiscal year 2025. His latest pay package was up around 22% from $79.1 million a year earlier. The increase came as Microsoft reported higher revenue, operating income and cloud growth, with the company\u2019s board citing \u201cexceptional progress in artificial intelligence\u201d and saying Nadella\u2019s leadership had positioned Microsoft as a clear AI leader amid a generational technology shift. The structure of Nadella\u2019s pay package also mirrors the company\u2019s priorities. His 2025 package was worth more than $84 million in stock awards, $2.5 million base salary and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031563,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031562\/revisions\/1031563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}