Nvidia chief Huang given 60% pay increase amid AI hysteria
(2024/05/16)
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Nvidia's chief Jenson Huang received a 60 percent pay bump in the corporation's fiscal 2024 on the back of a massive rally in the share price based on demand for AI, and triple digit growth percentages for revenue and operating profit.
Huang's package swelled to $34.16 million versus $21.35 million in the prior year. This was comprised of an unchanged base salary of $996,515, stock awards of $26.67 million, non-equity incentive compensation of $4 million and all other compensation of $2.494 million.
For someone who is reportedly worth $81.7 billion, at least according to Forbes, the financial top-up from Nvidia's last fiscal year likely barely registered in Huang's bank account. He owns 3.79 percent of the chipmaker's total share base.
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Is he worth that sort of payout? Huang helped to position the company for the AI wave of demand (more than 40,000 companies use Nvidia GPUs for AI, [2]claims Nvidia ) and presided over some mightily impressive growth figures at Nvidia.
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Revenue for the financial year ended January 28, 2024, jumped 126 percent year-on-year to $60.9 billion and operating income was up almost seven times to $33 billion.
Looking in more granular detail, the Compute and Networking division reported revenue of $47.4 billion, up 215 percent; Graphics was up 28 percent to $13.5 billion. The company's share price has bounced by 95 percent in the year to date to give it a market capitalization of $2.3 trillion.
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The exec pay figures were outlined in a [6]Notice of 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders document filed with the SEC , and the compensation packages for Nvidia's senior leaders are among the items of business that shareholders will be asked to vote for on June 26.
[7]Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million
[8]Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M
[9]Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign
[10]IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
[11]HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges
Sales of Nvidia's Data Center products alone brought in $47.5 billion in revenue, up 217 percent; Gaming captured $10.4 billion, up 15 percent; Professional Visualization was $1.6 billion, up one percent; and Automotive was $1.1 billion, up 21 percent.
Product highlights in the year included shipments of the first Arm-based datacenter GPU, Grace, as part of the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and "ramping" Grace products into a new multi-billion dollar line. The Blackwell GPU architecture also debuted, as did the Spectrum X accelerated networking platform and Quantum-X800 InfiniBand, and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet switches.
CFO Colette Kress received a financial package of $13.26 million, up from $10.2 million in the prior year; exec veep for worldwide field ops Ajay Puri got $13.6 million versus $10.6 million; and Debora Shoquist, exec vice president of operations, got $11.05 million compared to last year's $9.1 million.
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Huang's package swelled to $34.16 million versus $21.35 million in the prior year. This was comprised of an unchanged base salary of $996,515, stock awards of $26.67 million, non-equity incentive compensation of $4 million and all other compensation of $2.494 million.
For someone who is reportedly worth $81.7 billion, at least according to Forbes, the financial top-up from Nvidia's last fiscal year likely barely registered in Huang's bank account. He owns 3.79 percent of the chipmaker's total share base.
[1]
Is he worth that sort of payout? Huang helped to position the company for the AI wave of demand (more than 40,000 companies use Nvidia GPUs for AI, [2]claims Nvidia ) and presided over some mightily impressive growth figures at Nvidia.
[3]
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Revenue for the financial year ended January 28, 2024, jumped 126 percent year-on-year to $60.9 billion and operating income was up almost seven times to $33 billion.
Looking in more granular detail, the Compute and Networking division reported revenue of $47.4 billion, up 215 percent; Graphics was up 28 percent to $13.5 billion. The company's share price has bounced by 95 percent in the year to date to give it a market capitalization of $2.3 trillion.
[5]
The exec pay figures were outlined in a [6]Notice of 2024 Annual Meeting of Shareholders document filed with the SEC , and the compensation packages for Nvidia's senior leaders are among the items of business that shareholders will be asked to vote for on June 26.
[7]Broadcom CEO pay award jumps 164% to $160.8 million
[8]Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M
[9]Miffed Googlers meme on CEO's $226M pay award amid cost-cutting campaign
[10]IBM CEO pay jumps 23% in 2023, average employee gets 7%
[11]HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges
Sales of Nvidia's Data Center products alone brought in $47.5 billion in revenue, up 217 percent; Gaming captured $10.4 billion, up 15 percent; Professional Visualization was $1.6 billion, up one percent; and Automotive was $1.1 billion, up 21 percent.
Product highlights in the year included shipments of the first Arm-based datacenter GPU, Grace, as part of the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and "ramping" Grace products into a new multi-billion dollar line. The Blackwell GPU architecture also debuted, as did the Spectrum X accelerated networking platform and Quantum-X800 InfiniBand, and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet switches.
CFO Colette Kress received a financial package of $13.26 million, up from $10.2 million in the prior year; exec veep for worldwide field ops Ajay Puri got $13.6 million versus $10.6 million; and Debora Shoquist, exec vice president of operations, got $11.05 million compared to last year's $9.1 million.
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