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Mike Wirth

Chairman & CEO · Chevron CVX
$26.8M
FY2025 total compensation
Filed · DEF 14A

Chevron’s chairman and CEO since 2018, a 40-year company engineer who bought Hess, defended oil-and-gas returns to shareholders, and kept a disciplined hand on spending.

CEO since2018
Born1960
Pay rank#35 of 50 tracked

Pay vs performance

what happened while he earned it
CEO compensation$26.8M
Stock · since 2024+12.7%
S&P 500 · since 2024+38.4%
Revenue · YoY-6.8%
EPS · YoY-31.8%
CEO tenure8 yrs

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Why this pay?

  • His fiscal 2025 pay was about $26.8 million, down from a record ~$32.7 million the prior year. The salary, stock, option, and cash-incentive line items are exact from the proxy; the change-in-pension-value line is derived to reconcile against Chevron’s reported SCT total.

Quick facts

CEO since2018
PreviouslyChevron
Largest pay componentStock & options · 67%
Pay rank (tracked)#35 of 50
EducationUniversity of Colorado Boulder (BS, Chemical Engineering)

Compensation breakdown

DEF 14A
total · FY2025$26,800,000
Salary$1,900,000
Cash incentive$3,562,500
Stock awards$13,524,995
Option awards$4,376,640
Change in pension value$1,051,412
All other comp$2,384,453
Total$26,800,000

Chevron reported the FY2025 total at ~$26.8M (Reuters). The cash and equity line items are exact; the pension line is derived to reconcile, so the total is approximate to the last digits. Source: Chevron 2026 Proxy (FY2025)

Compensation history

salary + cash vs stock, from the proxies
$26.5MFY2023
$26.8MFY2025
Stock & optionsSalary & cashOther

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Career

2018-presentChairman & CEO · Chevron
2006-2015EVP, Downstream & Chemicals · Chevron

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