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In 2024, Shantanu Narayen earned $40.76M in total compensation at Adobe, including $1.50M salary and $37.66M in stock. Most recently sold 25,000 shares in Sep 2024. Currently holds stock worth $279.09M. Has led Adobe for over 18 years.

Compensation History

Annual executive compensation data for Shantanu Narayen, including salary, bonuses, and stock awards.

Year

2024

Total Compensation

$40.76M

Salary

$1.50M

Bonus

$0.00

Other

$1.60M

Salary

$1.50M

Board Justification

We achieve our objectives through our compensation programs that are designed to: provide competitive compensation opportunities that attract and retain top talent with the skills necessary for us to achieve our business objectives and motivate our executive officers to deliver the highest-level impact and results for Adobe; deliver a substantial majority of our executive officers’ pay through performance-based incentives to align the interests of our executive officers with those of our stockholders in the overall success of Adobe; encourage our executive officers to focus on our Company priorities; reward and motivate strong individual performance with commensurate levels of compensation; avoid encouraging undue risk-taking by our executive officers; and create direct alignment with our stockholders in the overall success of Adobe by providing equity ownership.

Bonus

$0.00

Board Justification

N/A

Other Compensation

$1.60M

Board Justification

For fiscal year 2024, these amounts include (i) matching contributions under the 401(k) Plan of $10,350 each and life insurance premiums, (ii) the cost of executive health concierge services, (iii) the tax grossed-up value of the sales club trip of $23,833 and (iv) the incremental cost of security services of $1,409,118 paid by Adobe to a third-party security provider, based on the actual security costs incurred by Adobe, and the incremental cost of personal use of our corporate jet of $145,822, based on variable costs for fuel, crew, catering and airport fees.

Restricted Stock

$37.66M65.09K common stock

Board Justification

These amounts represent the shares earned under the 2021 PSP based on achievement of the fiscal year 2022, 2023 and 2024 Net New Sales Goals, for which the respective performance periods were complete as of the end of fiscal year 2024 and certifications have been completed.

Performance Metrics

Our 2024 Cash Incentive Plan continued to be designed to emphasize strong financial performance as a gating factor to the annual cash incentive that NEOs ultimately realize. The Committee approved the 2024 Cash Incentive Plan to drive revenue growth, encourage accountability, drive execution of short-term priorities tied to long-term strategy and annual operating plan objectives and recognize and reward our executive officers upon the achievement of certain objectives.

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Shantanu Narayen

CEO of Adobe

Education

Not specified

Field of Expertise

Business & Management

Sector of Economy

Technology

Born

May 27, 1973 - 52 years ago

CEO of Adobe for

18 years 0 months (Dec 2007 - Present)

Previous Experience

Co-founder of Pictra Inc., Director of Desktop and Collaboration products at Silicon Graphics Inc., Senior Manager at Apple Inc.

Holdings

Track Shantanu Narayen's stock holdings and portfolio value over time.

Total Stock Sold

$413.56M

ADBE

$413.56M

3,595,421 ADBE shares

What if they kept their stock?

If Shantanu Narayen didn't sell their stock, today they would have:
Extra ADBE3,595,421 shares worth $1.18B.
This is 185.8% and $768.40M more than what they got when they sold the stock.

Insider Trading

Shantanu Narayen's recent stock transactions, purchases, and sales filed with the SEC.

ADBE

$13.08M

ADBE at $523.05/share

Sep 25, 2024

Sale

ADBE

$13.61M

ADBE at $544.53/share

Jun 27, 2024

Sale

ADBE

$19.15M

ADBE at $598.48/share

Dec 22, 2023

Sale

ADBE

$16.73M

ADBE at $478.12/share

Jun 22, 2023

Sale

ADBE

$5.20M

ADBE at $346.58/share

Jan 20, 2023

Sale

ADBE

$24.83M

ADBE at $620.78/share

Sep 24, 2021

Sale

ADBE

$38.12M

ADBE at $471.11/share

Jan 24, 2021

Sale

ADBE

$4.43M

ADBE at $442.69/share

Aug 12, 2020

Sale

ADBE

$4.51M

ADBE at $450.94/share

Aug 5, 2020

Sale

ADBE

$4.38M

ADBE at $438.14/share

Jul 29, 2020

Sale

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