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EA's CEO Pulled in $5 Million More This Year than Last, While His Employees Took Home the Least Money They've Made Since 2022

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Andrew Wilson was compensated to the tune of 260 times what the median EA employee took home in FY2025.
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No, life is not fair. But some things are really hard to ignore. Like EA’s record salary increase, Andrew Wilson: the staggering figure of 30.5 million USD, 5 million more than the previous year, and an increase of about 16%. They’re not exactly peanuts: a base salary of 1.3 million USD, about 26 million in share prizes, more than 3 million in premiums and another 700,000 in various compensations as life and safety insurance. Compared to normal …

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After learning that Electronic Arts (EA) was planning to fire 5% of its workforce, we now have more company details that are not very encouraging. Today it has been confirmed that EA CEO Andrew Wilson has earned $5 million more than usual this year, according to the company’s latest proxy presentation. This extra gain contrasts strongly with the fall in the average salary of EA employees: In 2024, the median income of full-time employees was $11…

NewsGaming.net While the CEO of Electronic Arts is increasing his earnings, the median earnings of employees are declining Recently, news from Electronic Arts are rarely good. In the midst of restructuring, the group dismissed more than 400 employees last April, and this after other layoffs that occurred a few months earlier. In this situation, the common sense would like the company's management to make efforts to cover the group's losses, but …

The video game industry is not going well. Whatever is said about it, an industry that is brewing billions, but which is firing in turn (at least 14,600 jobs in 2024 and already 2500 for this year), this is a problem. The other problem, too, is the salary of Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts, and of all management, compared to the median salary of employees.

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gamefile.news broke the news in on Thursday, June 26, 2025.
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