CEO total pay
$51,173,935
Shantanu Narayen · 2025
Say on pay
80%
Latest disclosed shareholder vote
CEO pay ratio
CD&A217 to 1
Median employee: $235,989
Compensation committee
CD&AExecutive Compensation Committee
Per the latest proxy
Filings indexed: 3 · 2026 · 2025 · 2024
Executive pay
What did they pay them?
From the Summary Compensation Table. Pay mix and YoY are computed from these rows.
| Executive | Role | TotalYoY | Pay mix | Salary | Stock | Cash incentive | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Shantanu Narayen2025 compensation | CHAIR OF THE BOARD AND CEO | $51,173,935↓ 2% | 95% at-risk | $1,500,000 | $45,376,110 | $3,120,000 | $1,177,825 |
Daniel Durn2025 compensation | CFO AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE, TECHNOLOGY, SECURITY AND OPERATIONS | $16,302,026↑ 5% | 94% at-risk | $900,000 | $14,443,742 | $936,000 | $22,284 |
Anil Chakravarthy2025 compensation | PRESIDENT, CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE ORCHESTRATION BUSINESS | $17,790,824↑ 5% | 95% at-risk | $800,000 | $15,900,898 | $1,040,000 | $49,926 |
David Wadhwani2025 compensation | PRESIDENT, CREATIVITY AND PRODUCTIVITY BUSINESS | $17,786,584↑ 5% | 95% at-risk | $800,000 | $15,900,898 | $1,040,000 | $45,686 |
Louise Pentland2025 compensation | Named executive officer | $15,588,584 | 96% at-risk | $403,846 | $12,532,771 | $415,714 | $236,253 |
Pay mix: base cash incentive equity other
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Compensation discussion & analysis
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Peer comparison
Who they benchmark against
2025 Peer Group
15 members
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Governance
Policy guardrails
hedging
prohibited
“Insider Trading Policy explicitly prohibits any director or employee, including our NEOs, from hedging their equity ownership in Adobe by engaging in short sales or trading in any derivatives involving Adobe securities”
pledging
prohibited
“Our Insider Trading Policy prohibits all employees and officers from pledging shares, engaging in short sales or hedging transactions involving Adobe’s securities.”
clawback
present
“clawback policy”
stock ownership guidelines
present
“Stock Ownership Guidelines”
change in control
Change of Control and Severance
“Change of Control and Severance”
compensation consultant
independent
“independent compensation consultant and management”
compensation committee
Executive Compensation Committee
“Finally, it analyzes how and why the Executive Compensation Committee of our Board (the “Committee”) made its compensation decisions for our executive officers, including our NEOs, in fiscal year 2025”
Performance markers
Metric facts
relative tsr
28th percentile
“With the above TSR performance, our percentile rank among the 96 companies against whom relative TSR performance was compared as of December 31, 2025 was at the 28th percentile.”
revenue
$23.77 billion
“to achieve a payout of 100%. The performance required for 100% payout was set above the midpoint of the fiscal year 2025 public guidance provided by the Company in December 2024 and above the 2024 Executive Annual Incent…”
annual incentive payout
6%
“ANNUAL CASH INCENTIVE PLAN104%payout under our 2025 Cash Incentive Plan, following a 6% downward Strategic Performance Adjustment to the Financial Performance Result of 110%.LONG-TERM EQUITY INCENTIVES 2023 PSP Relative …”
time equity mix
100%
“A substantial percentage (70%) of the long-term equity awards mix continuing to be performance-based awards, with the remainder (30%) continuing to be time-based RSUs vesting ratably over four years, to maintain the heav…”
say on pay
80%
“At our 2025 Annual Meeting, approximately 80% of the votes cast approved, on an advisory basis, our fiscal year 2024 NEO compensation.”
ceo pay ratio
217 to 1
“date fair value for the entirety of the performance shares granted to our CEO under the 2025 PSP and includes a portion of the grant date fair value of performance shares granted to our CEO under the 2024 and 2023 PSPs, …”
median employee compensation
$235,989
“economic position. Therefore, Messrs. Chakravarthy’s and Wadhwani’s payments are subject to a reduction, and Mr. Chakravarthy would receive a reduced severance payment and Mr. Wadhwani would not receive a severance payme…”
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