Tech — Software
Highest-paid Tech — Software chief executives
Every Tech — Software company's most recent disclosed figure, ranked highest first. Each company is shown at its own most recent fiscal year, and every figure carries the filing it was cited from.
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| # | Company | Chief executive pay |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oracle ORCL Clayton Magouyrk | ◇ |
| 2 | CrowdStrike Holdings CRWD George Kurtz | ◇ |
| 3 | Applied Digital APLD Wes Cummins | ◇ |
| 4 | Palo Alto Networks PANW Nikesh Arora | ◇ |
| 5 | Microsoft MSFT Satya Nadella | ◇ |
| 6 | Procore Technologies PCOR Ajei Gopal | ◇ |
| 7 | Cloudflare NET Matthew Prince | ◇ |
| 8 | Cadence Design Systems CDNS Anirudh Devgan | ◇ |
| 9 | Grindr GRND George Arison | ◇ |
| 10 | MongoDB MDB Chirantan Desai | ◇ |
| 11 | ServiceNow NOW William McDermott | ◇ |
| 12 | Adobe ADBE Shantanu Narayen | ◇ |
| 13 | Salesforce CRM Marc Benioff | ◇ |
| 14 | DXC Technology DXC Raul Fernandez | ◇ |
| 15 | Match Group MTCH Spencer Rascoff | ◇ |
| 16 | Elastic ESTC Ashutosh Kulkarni | ◇ |
| 17 | Tempus AI TEM Eric Lefkofsky | ◇ |
| 18 | Asana ASAN Dan Rogers | ◇ |
| 19 | Coursera COUR Gregory Hart | ◇ |
| 20 | Pinterest PINS Bill Ready | ◇ |
| 21 | Waystar Holding WAY Matthew Hawkins | ◇ |
| 22 | Intuit INTU Sasan Goodarzi | ◇ |
| 23 | ZoomInfo Technologies GTM Henry Schuck | ◇ |
| 24 | The Trade Desk TTD Jeff Green | ◇ |
| 25 | Datadog DDOG Olivier Pomel | ◇ |
| 26 | Grid Dynamics Holdings GDYN Leonard Livschitz | ◇ |
| 27 | DocuSign DOCU Allan Thygesen | ◇ |
| 28 | Vertex VERX Christopher Young | ◇ |
| 29 | Automatic Data Processing ADP Maria Black | ◇ |
| 30 | Meta Platforms META Mark Zuckerberg | ◇ |
| 31 | Ss&C Technologies Holdings SSNC William Stone | ◇ |
| 32 | Roblox RBLX David Baszucki | ◇ |
| 33 | PTC Inc PTC Neil Barua | ◇ |
| 34 | C3.AI AI Thomas Siebel | ◇ |
| 35 | Twilio TWLO Khozema Shipchandler | ◇ |
| 36 | GoodRx Holdings GDRX Wendy Barnes | ◇ |
| 37 | Godaddy GDDY Aman Bhutani | ◇ |
| 38 | Paycom Software PAYC Chad Richison | ◇ |
| 39 | Nutanix NTNX Rajiv Ramaswami | ◇ |
| 40 | Snowflake SNOW Sridhar Ramaswamy | ◇ |
| 41 | Kyndryl Holdings KD Martin Schroeter | ◇ |
| 42 | Cognizant Technology Solutions CTSH Ravi Kumar | ◇ |
| 43 | Dynatrace DT Rick McConnell | ◇ |
| 44 | Hubspot HUBS Yamini Rangan | ◇ |
| 45 | Commvault Systems CVLT Sanjay Mirchandani | ◇ |
| 46 | Flutter Entertainment FLUT Peter Jackson | ◇ |
| 47 | Synopsys SNPS Sassine Ghazi | ◇ |
| 48 | Doximity DOCS Jeff Tangney | ◇ |
| 49 | CACI International CACI John Mengucci | ◇ |
| 50 | Intapp INTA John Hall | ◇ |
| 51 | Samsara IOT Sanjit Biswas | ◇ |
| 52 | Paylocity Holding PCTY Toby Williams | ◇ |
| 53 | Five9 FIVN Michael Burkland | ◇ |
| 54 | Upwork UPWK Hayden Brown | ◇ |
| 55 | JFrog FROG Shlomi Ben Haim | ◇ |
| 56 | Manhattan Associates MANH Eric Clark | ◇ |
| 57 | Mobileye Global MBLY Amnon Shashua | ◇ |
| 58 | Bill Holdings BILL Ren Lacerte | ◇ |
| 59 | Teradata TDC Stephen McMillan | ◇ |
| 60 | Qualys QLYS Sumedh Thakar | ◇ |
| 61 | Workiva WK Julie Iskow | ◇ |
| 62 | Freshworks FRSH Dennis Woodside | ◇ |
| 63 | Verisign VRSN D. James Bidzos | ◇ |
| 64 | RingCentral RNG Vladimir Shmunis | ◇ |
| 65 | Pagerduty PD Jennifer Tejada | ◇ |
| 66 | Aci Worldwide ACIW Thomas Warsop III | ◇ |
| 67 | Leidos Holdings LDOS Thomas Bell | ◇ |
| 68 | Porch Group PRCH Matthew Ehrlichman | ◇ |
| 69 | Varonis Systems VRNS Yakov Faitelson | ◇ |
| 70 | Braze BRZE William Magnuson | ◇ |
| 71 | Guidewire Software GWRE Mike Rosenbaum | ◇ |
| 72 | Verisk Analytics VRSK Lee Shavel | ◇ |
| 73 | AppLovin APP Adam Foroughi | ◇ |
| 74 | Innodata INOD Jack Abuhoff | ◇ |
| 75 | Onestream OS Thomas Shea | ◇ |
| 76 | Tenable Holdings TENB Stephen Vintz | ◇ |
| 77 | DoubleVerify Holdings DV Mark Zagorski | ◇ |
| 78 | BlackLine BL Owen Ryan | ◇ |
| 79 | Rackspace Technology RXT Gajen Kandiah | ◇ |
| 80 | Clear Secure YOU Caryn Seidman Becker | ◇ |
| 81 | Q2 Holdings QTWO Matthew Flake | ◇ |
| 82 | Fortinet FTNT Ken Xie | ◇ |
| 83 | SPS Commerce SPSC Chad Collins | ◇ |
| 84 | Marqeta MQ Mike Milotich | ◇ |
| 85 | Alphabet GOOGL Sundar Pichai | ◇ |
| 86 | Toast TOST Aman Narang | ◇ |
| 87 | Unity Software U Matthew Bromberg | ◇ |
| 88 | Progress Software PRGS Yogesh Gupta | ◇ |
| 89 | Tripadvisor TRIP Matt Goldberg | ◇ |
| 90 | LiveRamp Holdings RAMP Scott Howe | ◇ |
| 91 | FactSet Research Systems FDS F. Philip Snow | ◇ |
| 92 | Evertec EVTC Morgan Schuessler | ◇ |
| 93 | EverQuote EVER Jayme Mendal | ◇ |
| 94 | nCino NCNO Sean Desmond | ◇ |
| 95 | PubMatic PUBM Rajeev Goel | ◇ |
| 96 | Tyler Technologies TYL H. Lynn Moore Jr. | ◇ |
| 97 | Yext Inc YEXT Michael Walrath | ◇ |
| 98 | Palantir Technologies PLTR Alexander Karp | ◇ |
| 99 | Jack Henry & Associates JKHY Gregory Adelson | ◇ |
| 100 | Clarivate CLVT Matti Shem Tov | ◇ |
| 101 | Pegasystems PEGA Alan Trefler | ◇ |
| 102 | Blackberry BB John Giamatteo | ◇ |
| 103 | CarGurus CARG Jason Trevisan | ◇ |
| 104 | N-Able NABL John Pagliuca | ◇ |
| 105 | Bumble BMBL Whitney Wolfe Herd | ◇ |
| 106 | Sabre SABR Kurt Ekert | ◇ |
| 107 | Parsons PSN Carey Smith | ◇ |
| 108 | Shutterstock SSTK Paul Hennessy | ◇ |
| 109 | Red Cat Holdings RCAT Jeffrey Thompson | ◇ |
| 110 | Fastly FSLY Charles Compton | ◇ |
| 111 | EverCommerce EVCM Eric Remer | ◇ |
| 112 | Zeta Global Holdings ZETA David Steinberg | ◇ |
| 113 | Blackbaud BLKB Michael Gianoni | ◇ |
| 114 | Playtika Holding PLTK Robert Antokol | ◇ |
| 115 | Magnite MGNI Michael Barrett | ◇ |
| 116 | Taskus TASK Bryce Maddock | ◇ |
| 117 | AppFolio APPF Shane Trigg | ◇ |
| 118 | EPAM Systems EPAM Balazs Fejes | ◇ |
| 119 | D-Wave Quantum QBTS Alan Baratz | ◇ |
| 120 | Cardlytics CDLX Amit Gupta | ◇ |
| 121 | Bentley Systems BSY Nicholas Cumins | ◇ |
| 122 | Ceva Inc CEVA Amir Panush | ◇ |
| 123 | Health Catalyst HCAT Daniel Burton | ◇ |
| 124 | Nextdoor Holdings NXDR Nirav Tolia | ◇ |
| 125 | NetScout Systems NTCT Anil Singhal | ◇ |
| 126 | Reddit RDDT Steven Huffman | ◇ |
| 127 | Alarm.Com Holdings ALRM Stephen Trundle | ◇ |
| 128 | Avepoint AVPT Tianyi Jiang | ◇ |
| 129 | Science Applications International SAIC James Reagan | ◇ |
| 130 | Appian APPN Matthew Calkins | ◇ |
| 131 | ZipRecruiter ZIP Ian Siegel | ◇ |
| 132 | Innovative Solutions & Support ISSC Shahram Askarpour | ◇ |
| 133 | Dropbox DBX Andrew Houston | ◇ |
| 134 | Red Violet RDVT Derek Dubner | ◇ |
| 135 | Amazon.com AMZN Andrew Jassy | ◇ |
| 136 | Rubrik RBRK Bipul Sinha | ◇ |
| 137 | Consensus Cloud Solutions CCSI Scott Turicchi | ◇ |
| 138 | Sprinklr CXM Rory Read | ◇ |
| 139 | ServiceTitan TTAN Ara Mahdessian | ◇ |
| 140 | Viant Technology DSP Tim Vanderhook | ◇ |
| 141 | UiPath PATH Daniel Dines | ◇ |
| 142 | Legalzoom.Com LZ Jeffrey Stibel | ◇ |
| 143 | First Advantage FA Scott Staples | ◇ |
| 144 | Zoom Video Communications ZM Eric Yuan | ◇ |
| 145 | Agilysys AGYS Ramesh Srinivasan | ◇ |
| 146 | DigitalOcean Holdings DOCN Padmanabhan Srinivasan | ◇ |
| 147 | GitLab GTLB William Staples | ◇ |
| 148 | CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings CCC Githesh Ramamurthy | ◇ |
| 149 | HealthStream HSTM Robert Frist | ◇ |
| 150 | Amplitude AMPL Spenser Skates | ◇ |
| 151 | Duolingo DUOL Luis von Ahn | ◇ |
| 152 | PDF Solutions PDFS John Kibarian | ◇ |
| 153 | Quantum Computing QUBT Yuping Huang | ◇ |
| 154 | Veeva Systems VEEV Peter Gassner | ◇ |
| 155 | Take-Two Interactive Software TTWO Strauss Zelnick | ◇ |
| 156 | I3 Verticals IIIV Gregory Daily | ◇ |
| 157 | Box Inc BOX Aaron Levie | ◇ |
| 158 | Klaviyo KVYO Andrew Bialecki | ◇ |
| 159 | Atlassian TEAM Michael Cannon-Brookes | ◇ |
| 160 | Zscaler ZS Jay Chaudhry | ◇ |
| 161 | Block XYZ Jack Dorsey | ◇ |
161 of 167 Tech — Software companies shown. A company is omitted when this figure has not been disclosed in a form this page can cite.