Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs
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Microsoft boss Satya Nadella will earn a wallet-busting $79.1m (£60.9m) this financial year, up 63 percent on his compe…

2024 has seen two mass layoffs at Microsoft, with 1900 staff laid off in January, before a further 650 Xbox employees were shown the door in September.

Regardless, Microsoft’s shares are up and the company’s market value is now higher than $3tn, as it works to capitalise on the rise of AI.

  • @[email protected]English
    18•27 days ago

    His salary increase must be inversely proportional to the quality increase in Windows 11.

    • @lando55English
      3•27 days ago

      You’re saying he deserves more?!

    • @pressanykeynowEnglish
      1•27 days ago

      Well Windows wasn’t an important Microsoft product for like 15 years now. It’s been like 7 years when Microsoft is a company mostly selling cloud Linux services. Ridiculous I know, but that’s from their yearly financial reports. It seems their plan is to cash out Windows as fast as possible before dropping it.