Nvidia's CEO Earns 166x Median Pay, R&D Drives Innovation

0:00Nvidia is blowing up in the AI game, evolving from gaming graphics to powering massive AI models and their stacking talent to keep them momentum. In fiscal 2026, they hired 6,000 more folks, pumping cash into their workforce. Top dog CEO Jensen Huang pulled in nearly $50 million total comp last year with a base of 1.5 million plus stock awards. He's also the biggest individual shareholder at 3.7%. Executive P's are caching big checks too. Ajay Puri in field ops topped them at over $21 million total, while CFO, Colette, Cres, and others. Like Debra Showquist and Timothy Teeter, hovered around 19 to 21 million. Media and Pay across Nvidia sits at about $300,000, including salary and stock. That makes the CEO to median ratio, and a 66 to 1 way up from 64 to 1 5 years back when Huang made $11.5. Million against the median of 179,000, Apple's ratio is even wider at 533 to 1.

1:06Engineers drive the engine here, with 31,000 out of 42,000 employees in R&D, 80% technical, over half with, advanced degrees. Vase for a system software engineer in Santa Clara, $152,000 to $287,500. Senior managers climb to $272,000 up to $431,250, plus incentives. They're keeping talent locked in with just 3.7% turnover, pushing lifetime careers through training, to wish and help, and internal. Moves as they drop billions into R&D, Nvidia's building an empire where top brains stay and innovate for the long haul. Derm news today, powered by AI bringing you what matters.