Jensen Huang
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia since 1993, who turned a graphics-chip company into the core supplier of the AI computing era.
Pay vs performance
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Why this pay?
- For a decade Huang's salary was held near $1M while nearly all his pay came from performance stock.
- Fiscal 2025 brought his first raise in ten years and a larger equity grant after record results.
Worth knowing
Before he co-founded NVIDIA, Jensen Huang bussed tables and washed dishes at Denny’s. He has said the discipline of that first job shaped how he runs the company now worth trillions.
Source: Denny’s / NVIDIA history · More facts →
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AFirst base-salary raise in a decade after record results. Source: Nvidia 2025 Proxy (FY2025) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
every filing on Nvidia, one hop awayCareer
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Nvidia'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: The White House / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons.