EA CEO Gets Pay Raise Despite Layoffs and Canceled Games, Now Earns 260x More Than Average Employee

Andrew Wilson, CEO of Electronic Arts (EA), received $30.5 million in both cash and stocks as compensation for the 12-month period ending March 31, 2025, according to a report from Game File.

According to the data from Game File’s report, Wilson’s pay saw a rise four consecutive years in a row and bulked up by approximately $5 million in the last year. Although it is not the peak, compared to Wilson’s $39-million salary in 2021.

The news comes on the heels of layoffs at video game studio Respawn Entertainment in April 2025, founded in 2010 by Jason West and Vince Zampella and owned by Electronic Arts since 2017, which cut around 100 employees from teams working on Apex Legends and Star Wars Jedi.

Besides that, median EA worker compensation saw a big downgrade compared to the previous year, from $149,000 to $117,000.

It’s worth noting that EA’s calculation of worker pay is unfortunately quite imprecise, as it seems to be based on the median, which represents the middle value in a list of all EA salaries, rather than the mean, which is calculated by adding all the salaries together and dividing by the total number of salaries.

Although the short version of the graphs effectively highlights the gap for the period since 2018 between the CEO’s lowest annual pay and the highest median worker compensation, which is about $18 million, Game File provided a more precise long version of the graph in its report.