NetApp: Pay

NetApp paid its 5 named executives $85.6M in total in FY2026 (Apr). CEO George Kurian(5a, 5b) was paid $22.2M of that.

Pay$100 in the stock at the end of FY20 → $273
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

Syam NairExecutive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
FY2026 (Apr)
1 year
George Kurian(5a, 5b)Chief Executive Officer
FY2026 (Apr)
FY2025 (Apr)
FY2024 (Apr)
FY2023 (Apr)
FY2022 (Apr)
FY2021 (Apr)
6 years
Wissam JabreExecutive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
FY2026 (Apr)
FY2025 (Apr)
2 years
Cesar Cernuda(7a, 7b)President
FY2026 (Apr)
FY2025 (Apr)
FY2024 (Apr)
FY2023 (Apr)
FY2022 (Apr)
FY2021 (Apr)
6 years
Elizabeth M. O’Callahan(9a, 9b)Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
FY2026 (Apr)
FY2025 (Apr)
FY2024 (Apr)
FY2023 (Apr)
FY2022 (Apr)
5 years

CEO pay against the pay peers

In FY2023 (Apr), the median CEO pay of the 8 peers with pay on file was $28.6M. The CEO of NetApp was paid $11.4M, 60% below the median.

  1. 1Palo Alto Networks
  2. 2Adobe
  3. 3ServiceNow
  4. 4Salesforce
  5. 5Intuit
  6. 6Seagate Technology Holdings
  7. 7NetApp
  8. 8Western Digital
  9. 9Commvault Systems
  10. 10AkamaiNot disclosed
  11. 11Arista NetworksNot disclosed
  12. 12Citrix SystemsNot disclosed
  13. 13F5 NetworksNot disclosed
  14. 14HP Enterprise CompanyNot disclosed
  15. 15Juniper NetworksNot disclosed
  16. 16NortonLifeLockNot disclosed
  17. 17NutanixNot disclosed
  18. 18Pure StorageNot disclosed
  19. 19SplunkNot disclosed
  20. 20TeradataNot disclosed
  21. 21VMwareNot disclosed
  22. 22WorkdayNot 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.