Months after saying job cuts at Microsoft weighed on him, bossman Satya Nadella has another problem: how to expend his swelling bank balance following another bumper pay rise.

The chairman and chief executive of the software and cloud megacorp was handed total compensation of $96.5 million for Microsoft's fiscal 2025, up almost 22 percent on the prior year. This includes a $2.5 million base salary, unchanged since 2023, $84 million in stock awards, $9.5 million in a non-equity incentive plan, and $196,000 for all other compensation.

Microsoft CEO feels weighed down by job cuts

But he's worth it, Microsoft told shareholders in its Proxy Statement . Since Nadella became top dog in 2014, Microsoft has tripled revenue, quadrupled net income, and quintupled diluted earnings per share (EPS).

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