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 [1]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, [3]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.

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Nvidia finds itself in something of a sweet spot, selling GPUs to a datacenter industry that is [5]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 [6]told is happening.

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Corporate highlights, as recounted by Nvidia in the [11]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.

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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.

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

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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/nvidia_q4_revs/

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ibm_arvind_kerching_pay/

[3] https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-2025

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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/nvidia_us_export_ban_change/

[8] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/29/nvidia_moores_law/

[9] https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/16/nvidia_chief_huang_gets_60/

[10] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/trump_responds_to_nvidias_us/

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