Marc Benioff
The co-founder and CEO of Salesforce, who pioneered selling business software as a subscription and built one of the largest enterprise-software companies in the world.
Pay vs performance
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Why this pay?
- His fiscal 2026 pay was $49.4 million, spread across salary, a formula cash bonus, and the grant value of stock and options, plus several million dollars of “all other compensation” driven largely by personal-security and aircraft costs common for high-profile founders.
Worth knowing
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff sold his first software as a teenager and became Oracle’s youngest vice president at 26, spending 13 years there before founding Salesforce in 1999.
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Compensation breakdown
DEF 14ASource: Salesforce 2026 Proxy (FY2026) →
Compensation history
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Salesforce's Summary Compensation Table for FY2026(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: Salesforce. / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons.