Michael Dell
The founder of Dell, who started the company in a dorm room at 19 and still runs it as one of the largest makers of PCs, servers, and AI infrastructure.
Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- Because he owns a huge economic stake in the company, Dell takes no equity compensation. His fiscal 2026 pay of about $3.4 million is just salary plus a cash incentive tied to financial targets — modest for a founder-CEO precisely because his wealth rides on the shares he already holds.
Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14ATakes no stock or option grants — he already owns a large stake in the company. Source: Dell 2026 Proxy (FY2026) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
every filing on Dell Technologies, one hop awayCareer
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Dell Technologies's Summary Compensation Table for FY2026(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: mikeandryan / CC BY 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons.