EA’s CEO, Andrew Wilson, has one way or the other managed to seek out himself $5 million richer than normal this yr, in keeping with the newest Proxy submitting by the corporate.
As reported by Stephen Totilo over at Sport File, the additional money on prime of an already very good annual revenue, flies immediately within the face of how the overall inhabitants of staff for the corporate are being renumerated. That is all unhealthy, nevertheless it has made for a slightly amusingly formed graph, so silver linings and all that.
Certainly, and ignoring the massive graph for only a second, EA reported the median revenue for full-time staff within the firm circa 2024 was $117,000, down from $149,000 in 2023. That is…that is a large drop. Now Totilo goes into some actually miserable particulars right here, in that EA’s reported figures, in keeping with Sport File, are notoriously imprecise.
“It’s ostensibly based mostly on a median common, not the imply (median = pulling the center quantity from a stack of salaries; imply = including the wage stack collectively, then dividing by the variety of salaries in that stack).
Confusingly, EA says it used “the identical median worker” in 2025 that it used to match compensation with Wilson in 2023 and 2024.
It doesn’t clarify that staff’ 2025 pay drop, however says its figures for CEO and employee pay each embody bonuses and inventory grants, which might rise and fall in a given yr.”
No matter whether or not or not you catch all that, the principle factor to notice, as ever, is that Joe Public will get much less, whereas the CEO makes an additional stash that is greater than most of us will see in our complete lives. As you have been, comrades.
Now onto the graphs, and we’ll allow you to click on via to the very tall one however let’s simply say it actually highlights, by having you scroll a couple of seconds longer than it’s possible you’ll suppose you are gonna, all the way in which up from $100k proper to that huge fats £39 million greenback pay stack of Wilson’s, simply how large the hole is between prime and backside…and with seemingly little or no rationalization.
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