Alex Karp
The philosopher-CEO who co-founded Palantir and turned its data-analytics software into a favorite of governments and, lately, the AI trade.
Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- His reported pay is modest relative to the headlines: a fiscal 2024 Summary Compensation Table total of $4.6 million, most of it personal-security costs rather than salary or new equity. The widely quoted “billions” figure is the accounting value of his pre-IPO shares appreciating — a different measure entirely from the proxy’s SCT.
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AThe oft-cited multi-billion-dollar figure is “compensation actually paid” (appreciation of pre-IPO equity), NOT the SCT. “All other” is largely personal-security cost. Source: Palantir 2025 Proxy (FY2024) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
every filing on Palantir, one hop awayCareer
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Palantir's Summary Compensation Table for FY2024(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: Benamischarfstein / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.