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Microsoft boss gets 63% pay rise despite asking for reduction

Satya Nadella asked for a reduction because of cyber attacks the firm suffered - but still saw his earnings increase massively.

It added he asked them "to consider departing from the established performance metrics and reduce his cash incentive to reflect his personal accountability" over a number of cyber attacks. The fiscal period runs up to 30 June 2024 - just weeks before the massive internet outage which affected Microsoft Windows PCs, causing chaos around the world. Elsewhere in big tech, Apple boss Tim Cook earned $63.2m in 2023, while the chief executive of the world's most valuable company Nvidia, Jensen Huang, was paid $34.2m in the 2024 fiscal year.

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