EA CEO Andrew Wilson's pay rose yet again this year, despite the fact that two of the studio's biggest releases were flops and despite overall median employee pay falling.
According to an EA proxy filing (as spotted by Game File), Wilson raked in $31 million last year, including "cash and stock awards", as Game File puts it. Wilson's pay this year marks a major increase over last year's, so clearly, EA thinks he's doing something right.
That's despite the fact that Dragon Age: The Veilguard and EA Sports FC 25, two of EA's tentpole releases last year, were financial disappointments for the company, although in fairness, March's Split Fiction was a pretty unqualified success.
As Game File's Stephen Totilo points out, Wilson's payrise also happened in direct contrast to median pay for EA employees, which fell last year, because of course it did. In 2023, median employee pay was $149,000 per annum, but the year after, that figure had fallen to $117,000.
However, as Totilo says, EA's metrics for employee pay are somewhat obfuscated, which makes their reporting a little imprecise.
The figure refers to "the same median employee" as the company used in previous years to report the aforementioned...
