Nikesh Arora

2022

In 2022, Nikesh Arora earned a total compensation of $10.4M as Chief Executive Officer at Palo Alto Networks, a 55% decrease compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Non-Equity Incentive Plan$1,500,000
Salary$250,000
Stock Awards$7,007,348
Other$1,653,129
Total$10,410,477

Arora received $7M in stock awards, accounting for 67% of the total pay in 2022.

Arora also received $1.5M in non-equity incentive plan, $250K in salary and $1.7M in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2022, Nikesh Arora's compensation ranked 231st out of 5,387 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Arora earned more than 95.7% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
231
out of 5,387
96th
Division
Manufacturing
91
out of 2,922
97th
Major group
Industrial And Commercial Machinery And Computer Equipment
14
out of 195
93rd
Industry group
Computer And Office Equipment
12
out of 63
81st
Industry
Computer Peripheral Equipment, Not Elsewhere Classified
2
out of 28
93rd

Pay ratio

Nikesh Arora's Pay$10,410,477
Median Employee's Pay$268,463
Pay Ratio

39

to 1

In 2022, the annual total compensation of Nikesh Arora was $10,410,477.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at Palo Alto Networks was $268,463.

The ratio of Nikesh Arora's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 39 to one.

Source: SEC filing on November 3, 2022.

Arora's colleagues

We found four more compensation records of executives who worked with Nikesh Arora at Palo Alto Networks in 2022.

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