Take it on the chin SatNad: Microsoft chief exec's pay slips 6% in record year

Sometimes you’ve just got to roll with the punches. Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella was knocked down recently: his total compensation for the corporation’s fiscal 2026 is 6 percent lighter than it was in the prior year. The leader of the software and cloud biz pocketed $90.6 million, including a $2.5 million base salary, $77.6 million in stock awards, $10.3 million non-equity incentive plan compensation and $259,203 in all other compensation (chiefly security for personal travel, charit