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- Microsoft is having a blockbuster year, helping boost the CEO's total payouts to $1 billion.
- The company recently added $154 billion to its market cap after revealing a new AI subscription.
- Satya Nadella's haul means he joins an elite club of corporate CEOs that includes Tim Cook.
Microsoft has gone from strength to strength amid the AI boom – and it's helped push CEO Satya Nadella's total payouts from the company to $1 billion.
According to regulatory filings cited by Bloomberg, that's what his equity grants, salary, bonuses and dividends all add up to since he took the job in early 2014.