W. Ming Shao

2021

In 2021, W. Ming Shao earned a total compensation of $8.9M as Senior Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at MicroStrategy, a 588% increase compared to previous year.

Compensation breakdown

Bonus$650,000
Option Awards$7,618,600
Salary$600,000
Other$42,445
Total$8,911,045

Shao received $7.6M in option awards, accounting for 85% of the total pay in 2021.

Shao also received $650K in bonus, $600K in salary and $42.4K in other compensation.

Rankings

In 2021, W. Ming Shao's compensation ranked 1,240th out of 12,415 executives tracked by ExecPay. In other words, Shao earned more than 90.0% of executives.

ClassificationRankingPercentile
All
1,240
out of 12,415
90th
Division
Services
368
out of 2,290
84th
Major group
Business Services
267
out of 1,533
83rd
Industry group
Computer Programming, Data Processing, And Other Computer Related Services
198
out of 1,054
81st
Industry
Prepackaged Software
123
out of 623
80th

Pay ratio

W. Ming Shao's Pay$8,911,045
Median Employee's Pay$112,166
Pay Ratio

79

to 1

In 2021, the annual total compensation of W. Ming Shao was $8,911,045.

The annual total compensation of the median employee at MicroStrategy was $112,166.

The ratio of W. Ming Shao's pay to the pay of median employee was therefore 79 to one.

Source: SEC filing on April 14, 2022.

Shao's colleagues

We found three more compensation records of executives who worked with W. Ming Shao at MicroStrategy in 2021.

2021

Phong Le

MicroStrategy

Chief Financial Officer

2021

Timothy Lang

MicroStrategy

Chief Technology Officer

2021

Michael Saylor

MicroStrategy

Chief Executive Officer

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