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Satya Nadella to earn 70 per cent higher salary than Steve Ballmer

Charlee Gothard

Charlee Gothard

06 February 2014 • 1 min read

With generous incentives worth up to 300 per cent on top

Satya Nadella could earn around £3m in his first year as Microsoft CEO, with a base salary of $1.2m (£737,000) - about 70 per cent higher than Steve Ballmer's - and an incentive programme that coul...

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