Warren Buffett is worth more than $100 billion, but he hasn’t had a pay raise in more than two decades.
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The total compensation for all three years included a base salary of $100,000. The company disclosed that Buffett’s annual salary has been $100,000 “for more than the past 25 years,” and that he receives no bonus or any form of equity-based compensation.
The rest of Buffett’s total compensation package was the value of personal and home security services provided by the company, which totaled $273,204 in 2021, $280,328 in 2020 and $274,773 in 2019.
Meanwhile, Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, who acts as Buffett’s right-hand man, was paid a base salary of $100,000 with no bonus the past three years, but didn’t receive any “other” compensation in the form of security services.
But don’t feel too bad for Buffett for not getting a raise, a June 2021 13D filing showed that he owned 238,624 shares of Class A common stock and 2,412 shares of Class B common stock.
The Class A shares rose 1.1% and the Class B shares gained 1.0% in afternoon trading Monday. At current prices, Buffett’s disclosed holdings are worth about $118.14 billion. That compares with Berkshire Hathaway’s market capitalization of roughly $723.1 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway may not have paid a cash dividend since 1967, but the value of Buffett’s holdings increased by $24.54 billion in 2021, by $1.96 billion in 2020 and by $8.02 billion in 2019.
So far in 2022, the value of his holdings has increased by $10.60 billion.
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Buffett was the fifth richest person in the world as of March 13, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The two people ahead of him currently at U.S.-based companies are Amazon.com Inc. AMZN,
In Amazon’s last proxy statement filed in April 2021, the company disclosed that Bezos had total compensation of $1,681,840 in both 2020 and 2019, with both years including a base salary of $81,840 and the cost of security arrangements for Bezos, of $1.60 million.
In Tesla’s latest proxy filed in August 2021, it was disclosed that Musk had no compensation in 2020 and just $23,760 in 2019, of which all of it was base salary. In 2018, however, Musk took home the value of $2.284 billion, including a base salary of $56,380 and options awards of $2.283 billion.
Berkshire Hathaway’s more-active Class B shares have climbed 10.3% so far this year, while share of Amazon have lost 14.5% and of Tesla have dropped 27.5%. The S&P 500 index SPX,
