Cadence Design Systems: Pay

Cadence Design Systems paid its 5 named executives $119.9M in total in FY2025 (Dec). CEO Anirudh Devgan was paid $56.7M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY20 → $229
CEO pay is from each proxy. The stock line is the value of $100 put in the stock at the start, from the price change of each fiscal year. Dividends are not in it.

Pay of each named executive

Anirudh DevganPresident and Chief Executive Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years
John M. WallSenior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2024 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
5 years
Paul ScannellSenior Vice President, Customer Success Team
FY2025 (Dec)
1 year
Paul CunninghamSenior Vice President, GM, System Verification Group
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
2 years
Chin-Chi TengSenior Vice President, GM, Digital & Signoff Group
FY2025 (Dec)
FY2023 (Dec)
FY2022 (Dec)
FY2021 (Dec)
4 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2025 (Dec), the median CEO pay of the 12 peers with pay on file was $25.7M. CEO pay of Cadence Design Systems for that year is not on file.

  1. 1CrowdStrike Holdings
  2. 2Veeva Systems
  3. 3Palo Alto Networks
  4. 4Advanced Micro Devices
  5. 5ServiceNow
  6. 6Workday
  7. 7Autodesk
  8. 8Skyworks Solutions
  9. 9PTC
  10. 10Synopsys
  11. 11Keysight Technologies
  12. 12Fortinet
  13. 13Cadence Design SystemsNot disclosed
  14. 14AnsysNot disclosed
  15. 15Arista NetworksNot disclosed
  16. 16DatadogNot disclosed
  17. 17Marvell TechnologyNot disclosed
  18. 18Microchip TechnologyNot disclosed

Pay of each named executive comes from the Summary Compensation Table of each proxy statement. Realized pay adds the value of options used and stock that vested. CEO pay of each peer comes from its own Pay versus Performance table.