Darren Woods
ExxonMobil’s chairman and CEO since 2017, a refining engineer who doubled down on oil and gas, bought Pioneer Natural Resources, and fought activist investors over climate strategy.
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 was $33.0 million, down about a quarter from the prior year almost entirely on the pension line: his actual pension change was negative, and SEC rules floor that value at zero, so the reported line reads $0 while the underlying number swung sharply.
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AThe ~25% drop is the pension line: his FY2025 pension change was negative (~−$442K), and SEC rules floor it at $0. Source: ExxonMobil 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
every filing on ExxonMobil, one hop awayCareer
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from ExxonMobil'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.