Broadcom’s Hock Tan grew up in Penang, Malaysia, and won a scholarship to MIT, where he earned two engineering degrees before an MBA at Harvard — then became one of tech’s most aggressive dealmakers.

Broadcom’s CEO Hock Tan can be paid over $200 million in a year he receives a multi-year stock grant — and a tenth of that in the off years. His pay is famously lumpy by design.

At about $205 million, Broadcom’s Hock Tan booked one of the largest single-year CEO pay packages ever disclosed in an SEC proxy — nearly all of it a multi-year performance stock grant.

The highest-paid chief executive in our CEO$ database is Hock Tan of Broadcom, at $205.3 million in fiscal 2025 — every dollar of it from the company’s SEC proxy.