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Albert Bourla

Chairman & CEO · Pfizer PFE
$27.6M
FY2025 total compensation
Filed · DEF 14A

The veterinarian-turned-CEO who led Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine effort and now steers the drugmaker through the post-pandemic slump.

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CEO since2019
Born1961
Pay rank#32 of 50 tracked
Share Albert Bourla's pay$27.6M in FY2025 — free, straight from the SEC proxy.

Pay vs performance

what happened while they earned it
CEO compensation$27.6M
Stock · since Jul 2024+0.2%
S&P 500 · since Jul 2024+42.8%
Revenue · YoY-1.6%
EPS · YoY-3.5%
CEO tenure7 yrs

No score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown, closes through Oct 9, 2026; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.

Why this pay?

  • His fiscal 2025 Summary Compensation Table total was $27.6 million, roughly 92% performance-based — a mix of salary, cash incentive, and the grant value of stock and options — equal to about 277 times the company’s median employee pay.

Quick facts

CEO since2019
PreviouslyPfizer
Largest pay componentStock & options · 67%
Pay rank (tracked)#32 of 50
EducationAristotle University of Thessaloniki (DVM; PhD, Reproductive Biotechnology)

Compensation breakdown

DEF 14A
total · FY2025$27,581,287
Salary$1,800,000
Cash incentive$5,400,000
Stock awards$9,442,705
Option awards$8,998,141
All other comp$1,940,441
Total$27,581,287

~92% performance-based; ~277x the median employee. Source: Pfizer 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →

Compensation history

salary + cash vs stock, from the proxies
$24.6MFY2024
$27.6MFY2025
Stock & optionsSalary & cashOther

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Career

2019-presentChairman & CEO · Pfizer
2018-2019COO · Pfizer

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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Pfizer's Summary Compensation Table for FY2025 (grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: World Economic Forum / CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons.