Microsoft chief Satya Nadella, whose gaffe advising women to trust “karma” for pay raises sparked a firestorm, earned $84.3 million this year, according to an SEC filing Monday.<\/p>\n
That amount, for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, included a base salary of $919,000, along with a bonus of $3.6 million, as well as stock options worth $79.8 million — though he can’t exercise those options until 2019, the filing reported.<\/p>\n
Nadella, 47, who took over from Steve Ballmer in February at the head of the US software giant, has been at the center of a controversy since early October over his comments at a conference in Arizona.<\/p>\n
At the conference, on women in computing, Nadella stunned the audience when he answered a question by saying that women, instead of asking for a raise, should just trust “that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.”<\/p>\n
He reportedly went on to contend that women who don’t ask for pay raises have a “superpower” in the form of “good karma, that’ll come back.”<\/p>\n
Nadella has since apologized several times.<\/p>\n
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