Satya Nadella
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Satya Nadella became Microsoft's third CEO in 2014. Chairman followed in 2021. He has steered the company through a pivot into cloud computing and, more recently, AI, reshaping how the business makes its money along the way. Nearly 90 percent of his fiscal 2025 pay arrived as stock.
Total compensation
Grade A — Primary Document$96,496,790total, FY2025 (ended June 30, 2025)
Salary $2,500,000; stock awards $84,245,496 — over 87% of the total; non-equity incentive $9,555,000; all other compensation $196,294. Up from $79,106,183 in FY2024.
- Filing
- DEF 14A
- Filed
- 2025-10-21
- Accession #
- 0001193125-25-245150
- Status
- reported
Reported equity holdings
Grade A — Primary Document$444,783,035as of 2025-11-10
896,595.378 shares × $496.08/share (stockanalysis.com, priced 2026-08-14, ~1:23 PM EDT)
786,875.378 shares held directly plus 109,720 shares held indirectly through a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, as of a November 2025 gift transaction (3,977 shares given away). No more recent Form 4 was on file at extraction time.
- Filing
- Form 4
- As of
- 2025-11-10
- Price source
- stockanalysis.com
- Priced
- 2026-08-14, ~1:23 PM EDT
Share value is a snapshot at the priced date, not a fixed mark — the underlying price moves the next trading session.