Wells Fargo (WFC.N) said on Thursday it has raised CEO Charles Scharf's total compensation for 2023 to $29 million.
The compensation consists of a base salary of $2.5 million and a total variable compensation of $26.5 million, which includes $6.6 million in cash and $19.9 million in long-term equity, the bank said in a regulatory filing.
The bank's board expressed strong confidence in Scharf's leadership in "driving the continued transformation of Wells Fargo".
Scharf's compensation for 2022 stood at $24.5 million.
Last week, Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N) said it gave its CEO Jamie Dimon a 4% rise in 2023, while Morgan Stanley's (MS.N) Executive Chairman James Gorman received a 17% rise in his last year as CEO.
