NVIDIA finally gave CEO Jensen Huang a hefty raise after a decade-long salary freeze. His compensation package jumped to $49.9 million, including a 49% base salary boost to $1.5 million. Talk about delayed gratification. The massive payday comes as NVIDIA dominates the AI chip market, with revenue soaring 114% to $130.5 billion. Huang’s net worth hit $97.9 billion – though holding steady at the top isn’t guaranteed in tech’s rollercoaster world.
Tech titan Jensen Huang just got a massive raise, because apparently running the world’s hottest AI chip company wasn’t paying him enough. NVIDIA’s compensation committee finally decided to bump up their CEO’s base salary by 49% to $1.5 million – his first raise in a decade.
After a decade of the same paycheck, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang scored a 49% raise to match his company’s AI dominance.
But that’s pocket change compared to his total compensation package of $49.9 million for fiscal 2025.
The timing makes sense. NVIDIA’s revenue exploded by 114% to $130.5 billion, riding the AI wave like a pro surfer. The company’s stock price soared from just 50 cents in 2015 to $111.61. The company’s stock price? It went absolutely bonkers, climbing more than ninefold from late 2022 to 2024. Not bad for a guy who was getting by on the same base salary for ten years.
The raise puts Huang’s pay more in line with other tech CEOs, though he probably isn’t sweating his bank account. He’s sitting on a cool $97.9 billion net worth, mostly from his 3.5% stake in NVIDIA. That makes him the 17th wealthiest person globally, even after losing $16.4 billion in 2025. Talk about a rough year. Like many companies in the S&P 500 index, NVIDIA’s performance significantly influences market trends.
But running a tech empire comes with its perks – and concerns. NVIDIA threw in $3.5 million for Huang’s security and related services, up from $2.2 million last year. Apparently, being a tech billionaire means needing more than just a Ring doorbell these days. The company’s focus on advanced next-generation GPU architectures demonstrates their commitment to pushing AI innovation forward.
Even Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai got $8.27 million for security and travel.
The compensation package, detailed in NVIDIA’s SEC filing, includes a boost in variable cash compensation to $1 million and a whopping $38.8 million in stock awards.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s median employee earned $301,233 – not exactly chump change, but a far cry from the boss’s haul.
For a company that’s become the backbone of global AI infrastructure, maybe $49.9 million is just another day at the office. After all, when your company’s stock performs like a rocket ship, the pilot might expect a little extra fuel in his tank.
