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EA execs earned $60 million in 2024 despite layoffs and office closures

CEO Andrew Wilson received almost half of that total.

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CEO Andrew Wilson received almost half of that total.

U.S. publisher EA has revealed how much its executives netted during FY2024, a 12-month period that saw it deliver annual net bookings of $7.43 billion but also cut 5 percent of its global workforce.

As noted in the company's annual Proxy Statement, which details its executive compensation plan, EA's named executive officers collectively earned over $60 million during the last fiscal year. That total includes individual base salaries, stock awards, and incentive plan compensation.

The biggest earner was EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who took home over $25.6 million after helping the company execute on "key strategic and operating objectives" such as restructuring the business around the new-look EA Sports and EA Entertainment pillars and launching the EA Sports FC brand.

Wilson was also lauded for overseeing "a year of continued employee satisfaction scores above industry benchmarks" and strategically aligning studio leadership to "support franchise development and success."

 

[simpatico]

It's a heist

 

[R6Rider]

 

[LectureMaster]

Proactive, all saving up to cover this baby's projected loss.

 

[Dacvak]

Must be nice.

 

[Bojji]

Rich are getting richer. Nothing new here.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Scumbags.

These are the dudes who talk about raising prices and so on.

 

[ReBurn]

Despite? You mean because of, right?

 

[Braag]

That's the type of money that I doubt any dev in EA will ever make in their lifetime.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

"I've got a business to run" - Phillip William Spencer III

 

[64bitmodels]

Scumbags.

These are the dudes who talk about raising prices and so on.

the worst part is that there are 1 too many idiots on this exact forum who buy into that shit, and want game prices to be raised in the hope of "killing MTX"

really it's probably just investors who want more profit on games

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

as one pal says:

It's not personal; it's just business, and I have to run one

 

[feynoob]

as one pal says:

It's not personal; it's just business, and I have to run one

Its scum shit, but there is nothing we can do about it.

These fkers dont own the business. Their decision is why the business fails.

 

[EDMIX]

They made more money, Executives made more money cause they executed plans that worked and made even more money by lay offs of 5%

So....that math is mathing lol

Before anyone jumps on the classic EA hate bandwagon, maybe some of you should consider some of ya'll um "media darlings" do the same shit, they just have a nice PR bullshit statement to make it sound like they are not like dem other guys lol

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808484/cd-projekt-red-cdpr-layoffs

https://www.ign.com/articles/mass-l...veloper-cd-projekt-prompt-new-union-formation

EA probably should have just released a series of fake PR statements and platitudes and shit lol

They should have said "Dead Space has no MTX or Multiplayer, we leave that to other scum publishers" (disregard what you do else where and make it sound like you've changed) lol

"Star Wars Fallen Order 2? No DLC or MP, leave that disgusting mess to the likes of UBiSOFT!" lol

If the whole say one thing and do another thing works for some shit publishers, maybe EA should start saying this fake ass shit, seems to be working for CDPR and others pretty fine tbh

The day they layed off 5%, they should have been like "Dragon Age will NOT HAVE MP, that is unbecoming of a single player game and EA as a company respects the wishes of their developers, shouldn't all companies?"

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

I worry that these execs aren't rich enough and so I hope more people will buy EA Sports FC this year and spend their hard earned money (or their parents hard earned money) on the virtual slot machine player packs. Then the execs can afford sending their kids to the best private schools and be able to purchase the latest model of the best cars.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Jesus. $25 million.

And how much are the developers getting for pouring their blood, sweat and tears into these products?

 

[intbal]

Proactive, all saving up to cover this baby's projected loss.

That literally looks like something made after a dozen or so AI prompts.

 

[Rat Rage]

Disgusting really. The whole corporate management structure is so fucked up and way too often a perfect breeding ground for unbelievably greedy, emotionally as well as morally rotten people, who happend to disguise themselves as businessmen. Unfortunately, this is what decades of unhinged capitalism brought us.

 

[Hip Hop]

with 60 million, that could have kept about 750 employees with a regular salary paid for a whole year.

 

[MrRenegade]

Time for the employees to just, plain and simple, abduct the ceo and make a soup out of him. Eat the guy, drop the bones into a pigfarm, and pretend like nothing happened .

 

[ReyBrujo]

s/despite/thanks to/

 

[intbal]

with 60 million, that could have kept about 750 employees with a regular salary paid for a whole year.

Why are you so cruel?
You'd be forcing Andrew Wilson to buy the 140ft yacht rather than the 150ft yacht that he deserves.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Executive compensation of $60M/year could fund multiple AAA titles over a 4+ year horizon

 

[Alebrije]

I did not expected less from Lazy Town's villian...

 

[kiphalfton]

Must be nice.

All you gotta do in this world to make money is sell your soul (and/or your hole).

 

[Warablo]

Greedy pigs

 

[semiconscious]

Despite? You mean because of, right?

came to post this. thanks!..

 

[Northeastmonk]

It makes the golden years of gaming that much more special. When people were working hard to make a product, not just micromanage the development teams like a sweat shop.

 

[Atrus]

The compensation seems out of step relative to the income the business is bringing in.

 

[poppabk]

Not 'despite' - 'thanks to'.
Execs get big bonuses for slashing costs short term.

 

[Portugeezer]

"We would like to thank the hundreds of fired employees for their brave sacrifice. Our execs could not have done it without you."

 

[molly14]

Remember the good old days of gaming, with one guy coding the whole game in his bedroom.

Nlow look it. How do these people sleep at night, 25 million for doing what exactly, apart from getting rid of studios and staffMake me sick.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Not saying it’s right…but, like every large company literally anywhere in the world right now?

Terrible practice, but this is big business wherever you look right now.

 

[newtypepilot]

welcome to corporate america!!!

 

[CLW]

Paid for by Whales and YouTubers ripping digital packs in the ea pay to win casino that is ultimate team

 

[SJRB]

“We love videogames!”

 

[Seider]

I dont care.

 

[Ozzie666]

It is pretty messed up honestly. Share holders seem fine with it all as long as they get their short term roi.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

It is pretty messed up honestly. Share holders seem fine with it all as long as they get their short term roi.

The funny thing is, you can’t really quantify the value of a CEO because nobody knows the alternative history outcome.

Sure, you can manage to get an “acceptable” ROI by doing very basic executive fuckery tactics. This isn’t rocket science.

In many cases the business could be so much better if they focused more on quality, less on DEI, and stuck to what truly matters. But that alternate reality doesn’t exist.

These executives all use the same groupthink playbook; why does this deserve outsized compensation?

Truly strategic and visionary gaming CEOs are rare and actually earn their keep. Nintendo does a great job of not overly emphasizing the contributions of a single person

 

[ByWatterson]

Now do Phil Spencer.

 

[TheSHEEEP]

despite layoffs and office closures​

Nonono, that's not how things work in that world.

Let me fix that for you:
Because of layoffs and office closures

 

[DannyDanger]

Jeez
Smh

 

[VitoNotVito]

EA is making 300-400M pure profit every quarter.
60M payout is nothing…

 

[Hypereides]

As a gamer, you gotta start asking yourself if people like Wilson even deserve it.

I really miss the time when gaming execs were engineers and creators who placed priority on the creativity and inventiveness of their games first. For the most part, EA ain't that company.

 

[March Climber]

It is pretty messed up honestly. Share holders seem fine with it all as long as they get their short term roi.

Yep, line must go up.

 

[Von Hugh]

EA is making 300-400M pure profit every quarter.
60M payout is nothing…

It's something compared to people potentially getting nothing after being laid off.

 

[FunkMiller]

And yet, idiot gamers will keep buying EA games, and preordering, and defending massive corporations, and defending CEOs, and whining about the quality of games, even though they’re still buying the shit these cunts spew out.

In this very thread people are excusing, or defending, or saying it’s not that bad…

 

[Hudo]

If I'd made millions every time I fail, I'd be the richest man in the universe.

 

[Randall365]

Need to get more children buying virtual sticker packs - that ain’t even enough for a super yacht. Sack a team - any team!

 

[HL3.exe]

That's the budget of two crysis 1 (2007) development cycles. (30mil Calculated with inflation.)