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Datadog Executive Compensation (FY25)
DDOG · New York, NY · Executive and director compensation, fiscal 2022 to 2025
Data as of September 7, 2026Latest filing (8-K): June 16, 2026
277 figures on this page: 272 cited to the filing that reported them, 5 calculated from figures it prints. See the citations
Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, received $27,055,481 in total compensation for fiscal 2025, and Pomel's total was 36.4% higher than the $19,842,554 reported for fiscal 2024. The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2025 is 131:1, against median employee compensation of $206,250. For fiscal 2025, the say-on-pay proposal drew 95.9% support at the meeting held June 15, 2026. The disclosed peer group names Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike Holdings, DocuSign and Dynatrace, among others.
What changed from fiscal 2024 to fiscal 2025
The figures that moved, and by how much. Analysis of these figures is part of the Velarion platform.
Chief executive total compensation — Olivier Pomel: $19,842,554 → $27,055,481 (36.4% higher)
CEO pay ratio: 98:1 → 131:1 (33.7% higher)
Frequently asked questions
Answers drawn from the data on this page.
Who is Datadog's chief executive and what were they paid?
Olivier Pomel, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, received $27,055,481 in total compensation for fiscal 2025. Pomel's total was 36.4% higher than the $19,842,554 reported for fiscal 2024.
What was Datadog's say-on-pay result?
For fiscal 2025, the say-on-pay proposal drew 95.9% support at the meeting held June 15, 2026.
Which companies are in Datadog's peer group?
The disclosed peer group names Atlassian, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike Holdings, DocuSign and Dynatrace, among others.
What is Datadog's chief executive pay ratio?
The disclosed chief executive pay ratio for fiscal 2025 is 131:1, against median employee compensation of $206,250.
Executive compensation
Every element reported for each named executive officer, by fiscal year.
Fiscal 2022
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sean Walters Chief Revenue Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
David Obstler Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Olivier Pomel Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexis Lê-Quôc President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Amit Agarwal President | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2023
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Amit Agarwal President | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexis Lê-Quôc President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Olivier Pomel Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
David Obstler Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Sean Walters Chief Revenue Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2024
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Yanbing Li Chief Product Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Olivier Pomel Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexis Lê-Quôc President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
David Obstler Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Adam Blitzer Chief Operating Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Sean Walters Chief Revenue Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Fiscal 2025
| Officer | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Olivier Pomel Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Alexis Lê-Quôc President, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
David Obstler Chief Financial Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Adam Blitzer Chief Operating Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
Sean Walters Chief Revenue Officer | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | — | ◇ | ◇ |
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. A negative change in pension value is shown but, as the company reports it, not included in the total.
Equity awards granted
Individual awards as disclosed: type, date, unit counts at each level, and grant date value.
Fiscal 2025
| Officer | Award | Grant date | Threshold units | Target units | Units granted | Maximum units | Exercise price | Grant date fair value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Blitzer | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
| Adam Blitzer | PSU | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | ◇ |
| Alexis Lê-Quôc | PSU | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | ◇ |
| Alexis Lê-Quôc | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
| David Obstler | PSU | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | ◇ |
| David Obstler | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
| Olivier Pomel | PSU | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | ◇ |
| Olivier Pomel | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
| Sean Walters | RSU | ◇ | — | — | ◇ | — | — | ◇ |
| Sean Walters | PSU | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ | — | ◇ |
Fiscal 2022, 2023, 2024 are included in the PDF.
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero. Threshold, target and maximum apply only to performance awards and are never shown for time-based or option awards.
Outstanding awards
Awards still held at fiscal year end.
As disclosed at fiscal 2025 year end
| Officer | Award | Unvested units | Market value of unvested units | Exercise price | Expires |
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| Sean Walters | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
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| Adam Blitzer | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
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| Alexis Lê-Quôc | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
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| David Obstler | RSU | ◇ | ◇ | — | — |
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A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director compensation
What each non-employee director was paid.
Fiscal 2024
| Director | Fees earned in cash | Stock awards | Option awards | Non-equity incentive | Pension and deferred earnings | All other compensation | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dev Ittycheria Lead independent director | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Julie Richardson | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Michael Callahan | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Titi Cole | ◇ | ◇ | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Shardul Shah | ◇ | — | — | — | — | — | ◇ |
Alexis Lê-Quôc, Amit Agarwal, Matthew Jacobson and Olivier Pomel served on the board in fiscal 2024 and received no compensation for board service. Executive directors are typically paid through their executive roles, shown above.
Earlier years are included in the PDF.
A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. $0 is shown only where the filing prints a zero.
Director fee schedule
The standing retainers and premiums the board pays, as published.
| Board cash retainer | ◇ |
| Board equity retainer | ◇ |
| Total board retainer | ◇ |
| Lead independent director premium | ◇ |
| Audit committee chair | ◇ |
| Audit committee member | ◇ |
| Compensation committee chair | ◇ |
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| Nominating and governance chair | ◇ |
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Equity is delivered as restricted stock units.
Disclosed peer group
The companies this board named as its compensation comparison group. The list is disclosure; the comparison is analysis.
Fiscal 2025
- Atlassian TEAM
- Cloudflare NET
- CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD
- DocuSign DOCU
- Dynatrace DT
- Fortinet FTNT
- HubSpot HUBS
- MongoDB MDB
- Okta OKTA
- Palantir Technologies PLTR
- Palo Alto Networks PANW
- Snowflake SNOW
- Splunk SPLK
- The Trade Desk TTD
- Twilio TWLO
- Unity Software U
- Veeva Systems VEEV
- Workday WDAY
- Zoom Video Communications ZM
- Zscaler ZS
Say-on-pay history
Shareholder support for the compensation program, by year.
| Year | Meeting | Support | Votes for | Votes against | Abstentions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | June 15, 2026 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2024 | June 3, 2025 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2023 | June 5, 2024 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2022 | June 8, 2023 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
| 2021 | June 2, 2022 | = | ◇ | ◇ | ◇ |
Chief executive pay ratio
As calculated and reported by the company.
Ratio
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Median employee compensation
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Chief executive total compensation
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What this page does not include
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Peer benchmarking
Where Datadog sits against its disclosed peers — percentile position by role and by pay element, and the ranking behind it. The disclosed peer group is free; comparisons across it are part of the Velarion platform.
Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Written compensation analysis
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Executive Compensation Report — $1,500Board and governance analysis
Committee composition, independence, director pay positioning, and the governance provisions read together rather than listed.
Board Governance Report — $1,200Realizable pay
What the awards above are actually worth today against what they were valued at on grant, and what the gap says about the pay-for-performance link.
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277 figures on this page: 272 cited to the filing that reported them, 5 calculated from figures it prints.
272 cited to the filing
5 calculated from the filing
Documents cited
- 0001628280-26-043590
- 0001628280-26-028118CEO Pay Ratio · EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION · Grants of Plan-Based Awards · NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION · and 1 more section
- 0001561550-25-000162
- 0001561550-25-000108NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTOR COMPENSATION · Summary Compensation Table
- 0001561550-24-000071
- 0001561550-24-000042Summary Compensation Table
- 0001561550-23-000031
- 0001561550-23-000012Summary Compensation Table
- 0001561550-22-000029
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Velarion Company Intelligence. (2026). Velarion database: executive and board compensation data (Version 2026Q3) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854
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@misc{velarionData2026,
author = {{Velarion Company Intelligence}},
title = {Velarion database: executive and board compensation data},
year = {2026},
version = {2026Q3},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22283854},
publisher = {Zenodo},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22283854}
}