Tim Chen

2021

In 2021, Tim Chen earned a total compensation of $5.4M as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at NERDWALLET, a 912% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Option Awards$4,851,010
Salary$535,261
Other$13,825
Total$5,400,096

Chen received $4.9M in option awards, accounting for 90% of the total pay in 2021.

Chen also received $535.3K in salary and $13.8K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, Tim Chen's compensation ranked 2,380th out of 12,415 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Chen earned more than 80.8% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
2,380
out of 12,415
81st
Division
Services
641
out of 2,290
72nd
Major group
Business Services
456
out of 1,533
70th
Industry group
Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related Services
333
out of 1,054
68th
Industry
Computer Processing and Data Preparation and Processing Services
46
out of 149
69th
Source: SEC filing on April 14, 2022.

Chen's colleagues

We found two more compensation records of executives who worked with Tim Chen at NERDWALLET in 2021.

2021

John Caine

NERDWALLET

Chief Product Officer

2021

Kelly Gillease

NERDWALLET

Chief Marketing Officer

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