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Satya Nadella Net Worth (2026)
Satya Nadella is Chairman & CEO of Microsoft (MSFT). Most of a public-company CEO’s on-paper wealth is their stake in that company — anchored here on the number you can verify.
WHAT WE KNOW · FROM FILINGS
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— MSFT shares × $401.10.
WHAT WE ESTIMATE
varies
Past cash compensation, sold shares, real estate, and other public holdings — estimable from records, but not exact.
WHAT CAN’T BE KNOWN
private
Private company stakes, trusts, cash, debts, and undisclosed assets. Anyone publishing these as a single number is guessing.
At a glance
| Company | Microsoft (MSFT) |
| Title | Chairman & CEO |
| Verified stake | — |
| Shares owned | — |
| Latest total pay | $79M breakdown → |
| Age | ~59 |
HOW THIS IS CALCULATED
We take the shares Satya Nadella reports owning in their most recent SEC Form 4 and multiply by the latest share price. That gives a stake value you can check against the filing itself. Everything beyond that stake — real estate, private holdings, cash, past compensation — is estimated or simply not public, and we say so rather than roll it into one number.
BIOGRAPHY
Satya Nadella was born in Hyderabad, India, in 1967. His father was a senior civil servant in the Indian Administrative Service and his mother a professor of Sanskrit, and he grew up an only child obsessed with cricket, a game he credits for teaching him teamwork and leadership. He studied electrical engineering at Manipal before leaving for graduate school in the United States.
He earned a master’s in computer science in Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Chicago, taking business classes on weekends while working. He joined Microsoft in 1992 and spent more than two decades inside it, most notably building the cloud business that became Azure.
When he became chief executive in 2014, Microsoft was seen as a fading PC-era giant. Nadella refocused it on the cloud and subscriptions, made peace with rivals it had long fought, and later moved early and aggressively on AI through its partnership with OpenAI. The company’s value multiplied many times over.
Nadella is a hired chief executive, not a founder, so his stake came from compensation across a 30-plus-year career rather than a founding share. It is a fraction of the company, which is the distinction this page draws.
Born 1967 · Manipal Institute of Technology (BE); University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (MS); University of Chicago (MBA)
CAREER
NOTABLE
- Wrote the 2017 bestseller Hit Refresh and directed the proceeds to Microsoft Philanthropies.
- A lifelong cricket fan who credits the sport for shaping how he leads teams.
COMPENSATION HISTORY · from SEC proxy statements
| Fiscal year | Total pay |
|---|---|
| 2024 | $79M |
| 2023 | $49M |
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*Estimated net worth is a third-party figure from Bloomberg (2026), not our own calculation; it is an estimate that changes with the market. The stake value is filing-derived and verifiable; any broader “net worth” is an estimate. Photo: Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons). Share counts are the latest reported on SEC filings and change as the executive trades; the price is the last close, so the stake value moves with the market. This is not an official or complete accounting of anyone’s wealth. Educational only — not investment advice.
