Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Earned $23.4 Million With Vice Chair Role

Microsoft Corp. gave its longtime top lawyer Bradford Smith a roughly $23.4 million pay package after promoting him to vice chairman last year.

Smith earned nearly $1 million in base salary, almost $3.6 million in non-equity incentive plan pay, and about $18.8 million in stock awards during fiscal 2022, Microsoft said in an annual proxy statement. Smith’s total compensation was an increase from the $20.5 million he received in 2021 and $16.7 million in 2020.

Microsoft in its proxy credited Smith for fighting disinformation and foreign cyber influence amid the response to the war in Ukraine, and working on ...