Charlie Scharf
Wells Fargo’s CEO since 2019, a Jamie Dimon protégé brought in to clean up the bank after its accounts scandal — rewarded in 2025 when regulators finally lifted its asset cap.
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 fiscal 2025 pay jumped to $94.5 million — roughly triple prior years — driven by a special one-time $30 million option award and elevated stock grants tied to the asset-cap removal. That SCT figure is very different from the ~$40 million "pay decision" Wells Fargo publicized, which is a board target rather than the proxy’s grant-date total.
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AThe special ~$30M option award plus elevated stock, tied to the 2025 removal of the Fed asset cap, roughly tripled his pay. The "$40M for 2025" headline is a board pay-decision target, not the SCT. Source: Wells Fargo 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Wells Fargo'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: C-SPAN / CC0 / Wikimedia Commons.