"IBM boss Arvind Krishna... financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers."
Two days ago: New Post Has Just Explained How IBM Gets Robbed by the People Who Fail IBM
Later in the same day: IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 in target smash and grab
Not all employees are created equally, just ask IBM boss Arvind Krishna, who received a financial package valued at $38 million in calendar 2025 - equivalent to the average collective pay of 765 Big Blue workers.As the triple crown holder - Chairman, CEO and President - Krishna hit annual and longer term incentive targets, according to IBM's proxy statement. As such, his award leaped compared to the $25.14 million he received in the prior year.
The $1.5 million salary was unchanged, stock awards went up to almost $24 million, options awards were $6.6 million, and non-equity incentive compensation was $5.25 million. The value of his pension went up $42,970 and all other compensation was $601,817.
2025 was seen as a successful year for IBM: revenue grew 8 percent to $67.5 billion, as it "shifted to higher growth areas, with over 75 percent of our business mix in Software and Consulting."
Software was up 11 percent; hybrid cloud, data and automation grew double digits; and the "cumulative GenAI book of [product] business" reached upwards of $2 billion. The Consulting arm grew only 2 percent but here the GenAI contract pipeline was $10.5 billion, showing customers are on track to spend five times more on IBM advisors to tell them what to do with "AI" than they are on the actual "AI."
Moments ago: Comment
Only 51%? Surely AK deserves more than that.
IBM has just laid off close to 1,000 people in a company that IBM's CEO decided to waste 11 billion dollars on. (IBM's debt keeps growing and growing.)
Thankfully, for him at least, this strategy is working out. It's not good for the morale of employees, but it is sure is excellent for the CEO, who continues to ruin the company to enrich himself while pretending he has a strategy. (Nope, he has no strategy) █
