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.
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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
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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.