Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year

Sometimes you’ve just got to roll with the punches. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella was knocked down recently: his total compensation for the corporation’s fiscal 2026 is 6 percent lighter than it was in the prior year.

The leader of the software and cloud biz pocketed $90.6 million, including a $2.5 million base salary, $77.6 million in stock awards, $10.3 million non-equity incentive plan compensation and $259,203 in all other compensation (chiefly security for personal travel, charitable gifts and pension contributions).

As Reg readers are no doubt be aware, stock vests at a different rate annually and in the latest full-year Nadella was awarded a lower figure, despite breezing through all of his financial and operational targets.

Revenue for Microsoft's fiscal 2026 ended June 30 was up 18 percent to $331.8 billion and operating profit was 18 percent higher - at $ 155.237 billion - than SatNad's $130.96 billion target. …