Western Digital Executive Compensation
Western Digital Corporation is an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company.
Named Executive Officers — FY2024
Compensation Analysis
Computed directly from SEC-sourced figures tracked on this page — not a general description.
Western Digital discloses FY2024 compensation for 6 named executive officers, totaling $20.4M. David Goeckeler, the Chief Executive Officer, accounts for 90% of that combined total.
David Goeckeler's total compensation rose 1372% year-over-year, from $1.3M in FY2023 to $18.4M in FY2024.
Cash compensation (salary plus bonus) made up 30% of Western Digital's FY2024 tracked executive pay, with stock awards accounting for 68%. That's notably more stock-weighted than the typical Technology company in this dataset, where stock awards average 13% of tracked pay.
Among 134 other Technology companies in this dataset, Western Digital's combined tracked executive pay of $20.4M ranks in the 58th percentile (industry median: $17.5M). Its highest-paid executive, David Goeckeler, ranks in the 72th percentile for top-executive pay in the sector (industry median: $10.3M).
Compensation figures on this page for Western Digital come directly from its SEC DEF 14A proxy statement(s), filed with the SEC via EDGAR — not from crowdsourced or self-reported salary data.