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Ted Decker

Chair, President & CEO · Home Depot HD
$16.2M
FY2025 total compensation
Filed · DEF 14A

Home Depot’s chairman and CEO since 2022, a merchandising specialist steering the home-improvement leader through a housing slowdown and a push into the professional-contractor market.

CEO since2022
Born1963
Pay rank#41 of 50 tracked

Pay vs performance

what happened while he earned it
CEO compensation$16.2M
Stock · since 2024+2.1%
S&P 500 · since 2024+38.4%
Revenue · YoY+3.2%
EPS · YoY-4.6%
CEO tenure4 yrs

No 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 $16.2 million — a $1.4 million salary plus stock, options, and a management-incentive cash bonus. Some aggregator sites still list an outdated ~$12 million figure; the proxy total is $16,191,127.

Quick facts

CEO since2022
PreviouslyHome Depot
Largest pay componentStock & options · 74%
Pay rank (tracked)#41 of 50
EducationCollege of William & Mary (BA); Carnegie Mellon Tepper (MBA)

Compensation breakdown

DEF 14A
total · FY2025$16,191,127
Salary$1,400,000
Cash incentive$2,657,631
Stock awards$9,612,251
Option awards$2,369,917
All other comp$151,328
Total$16,191,127

Home Depot’s fiscal year ends in early February. Some trackers list an outdated ~$12M — the proxy shows $16,191,127. Source: Home Depot 2026 Proxy (Fiscal 2025) →

Compensation history

salary + cash vs stock, from the proxies
$16.2MFY2025
Stock & optionsSalary & cashOther· prior years n/a

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Career

2022-presentChair, President & CEO · Home Depot
2020-2022President & COO · Home Depot
2018-2020EVP, Merchandising · Home Depot

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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Home Depot'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.