Michael Miebach
Mastercard’s CEO since 2021, a career payments executive steering the network deeper into open banking, tokenized transactions, and fraud-fighting AI.
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Pay vs performance
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Why this pay?
- His fiscal 2025 pay of $35.4 million is built almost entirely of performance stock, options, and a formula cash incentive, on a modest $1.375 million salary. The proxy’s pay-ratio disclosure put his compensation at about 284 times the median Mastercard employee.
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AUp ~18% year over year; the proxy’s pay-ratio section confirms this $35,422,518 SCT total. Roughly 284× the median employee. Source: Mastercard 2026 Proxy (FY2025) →
Compensation history
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Mastercard'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: Drew Gurian / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.