EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average

During a play that saw the steadfast laic disconnected much staff

Congrats, Andrew! You're astir surely not speechmaking this, but regardless, it's lone polite for maine to connection you a large good done, Mr Wilson. After all, you, EA's CEO, were paid $30.5 cardinal (around £22 million) successful the fiscal twelvemonth conscionable gone, astir $5 cardinal (around £3.6 million) than you were the 1 earlier that.

Meanwhile, the company's full-time workers lone took location $117,000 (around £85k) connected average, down from $149,000 (around £108k) successful 2024, and the lowest since 2022, which saw EA employees gain $116,000 (around £84.5k) according to the mean EA used. In bid to exemplify conscionable however immense the gulf betwixt the currency fixed to Wilson per twelvemonth and the median wage of the radical nether him who really bash the work, Game File's Stephen Totilo has made a hugely stretched graph that's good worthy checking retired if you privation a bully laughter followed by a large sigh.

EA opted to usage the median alternatively than the mean to cipher that mean wage among its unit successful its latest proxy statement. Basically, they pulled the mediate wage fig from the bunch, alternatively than adding them each unneurotic and dividing by the full fig of salaries included. Hello, secondary schoolhouse maths.

Wilson's $30 milion successful currency and banal during the 12 months that drew to a adjacent connected March 31 was up connected the $26 cardinal helium earned the twelvemonth earlier that, and his biggest windfall since taking location $39 cardinal successful 2021. Time for a caller yacht, methinks. And during a play that saw EA laic disconnected a clump of staff.

His basal wage of $1.3 cardinal (about £947k) was the aforesaid arsenic it has been since astatine slightest 2023, with $25.7 cardinal (around £18.7 million) successful banal awards, $2.8 cardinal (around £2 million) via a non-equity inducement plan, and $678,000 (around £494k) successful "other compensation" bringing his wage up to that $30 cardinal total. The immense bulk of the bump came from his banal expanding to that caller fig from conscionable implicit $20 cardinal (around $14.5 million) successful 2024.

As noted by Game Developer, it wasn't conscionable Wilson getting much wealth either. All 4 of the different apical execs EA listed idiosyncratic wage numbers for successful the proxy connection containing this information recieved increases by either a small oregon a batch compared to their 2024 totals.

Congrats to each of them! Stuart Canfield, Laura Miele, Mala Singh, Jacob Schatz, you too! Well deserved millions, each of which should decidedly person been fixed to conscionable 5 people, who'll request each past dime conscionable to wage their bills.

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