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Toyota chairman's pay hits record ¥1.9 billion despite scandals

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Toyota Motor Corp said Wednesday its chairman received a pay package worth around 1.95 billion yen for fiscal 2024, the largest in the company's history and up 20 percent from the previous year, despite a reduction tied to a series of quality scandals.

Akio Toyoda still received record-high compensation for the fourth straight year, reflecting the Japanese automaker's strong performance.

"Compensations for the chairman, vice chairman and president were reduced to reflect their responsibility on the issues," Toyota said, referring to the scandals involving the firm and its subsidiaries.

President Koji Sato was paid 826 million yen, while former Vice Chairman Shigeru Hayakawa, who resigned on June 12 following an annual shareholders' meeting, received 365 million yen, according to an annual securities report.

Companies in Japan are required to disclose information on executives who receive 100 million yen or more in annual compensation.

Following the scandals, the automaker also said in its report that it would work to prevent a recurrence.

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That's disgusting

-10 ( +8 / -18 )

Look to America to see where this all ends.

4 ( +9 / -5 )

While it might seem like a lot of money, when compared to the compensation by many US companies, it is quite low. Carlos Ghosn must be sitting in Beirut thinking, I should have been the highest paid, for what I did for Nissan! But he was arrested, not paid!

-8 ( +7 / -15 )

@Saltwater

Why is that disgusting? That's only around $13.5 million USD. Quite reasonable actually. Toyota netted around $35.5 billion last fiscal year. He's getting paid less than 0.04% of the profit. Competitors are paying their people more while earning less.

General Motors' Mary Bara earned approximately $27.8 million when the company's net income last fiscal year was around $6 billion.

Ford's Jim Farley earned approximately $24.9 million when the company's net income last fiscal year was around $5.88 billion

11 ( +19 / -8 )

Wasn’t Akio Toyoda unanimously elected a few days ago to lead the Japan Sumo Federation?

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250614/p2g/00m/0sp/036000c

-8 ( +2 / -10 )

I don't care what a CEO makes as long the workers are being paid well. Are they being paid well?

13 ( +14 / -1 )

I think the highest earner in a companies wages should be linked to the lowest earners wages. Therefore making a better society. For example, it can only be 100 times more. This would raise wages while also leaving enough incentive to climb the ladder.

9 ( +11 / -2 )

Compared to Nissan, the Toyota people are choir boys. I trust Toyota and Honda a lot more than Mitsubishi and Nissan.

-2 ( +5 / -7 )

I don't care what a CEO makes as long the workers are being paid well. Are they being paid well?

LOL, FIY, Toyota pays probably the best out of all large and stable companies in Japan. Their nominal employee annual bonuses were making news headlines not so far back. And their unions do really well in negotiating fair conditions for the company and employees.

1 ( +5 / -4 )

Ever wonder why Toyota is making record profits every year, for that past 4,5 years?

That's right. It all started during Corona, when the JP government started to manipulate the JPY currency, to half its value, in order to boost the exports. Naturally, mega corps suct as Toyota start to make record profits because of that, while their workers are still receiving the same 30 years old salary grill, except, of course, the ones such as presented in the article.

And guess who was the main sponsor for the LDP elections campaigns, Olympics, etc... ;)

-5 ( +4 / -9 )

@SaikoPhysco

Compared to Nissan, the Toyota people are choir boys. I trust Toyota and Honda a lot more than Mitsubishi and Nissan.

Agree. There are plenty of reasons to not buy a Nissan at the moment (such as, what kind of after sales care will you get when they are gone), but above all a responsible customer will weigh up things like evidence of malfeasance and fiduciary duty (to shareholders) before buying.

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He is worth every dime, infact relative to his compatriots in US. He seems to be underpaid. Now Akiyo Toyoda be a blessing to all those under you and lead the ship to cool, stable waters

0 ( +4 / -4 )

Divide by 365.

Over ¥5.2m every day.

Trebles all round!

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Meanwhile top people at Open AI being offered $100MILLION signing bonuses to work at Meta, Toyota Chairman pay package, chump change in world of tech.

Former MSFT Pres. Ballmer makes well over $1 BILLION in just MSFT stock dividends annually, that's about as risk free as it gets, while he watches basketball games!

-7 ( +3 / -10 )

Why is that disgusting? That's only around $13.5 million USD. Quite reasonable actually. Toyota netted around $35.5 billion last fiscal year.

Let me tell you why that is disgusting. I know a few people who work for Toyota and its suppliers who are employed on short-term contracts who make around 180,000 a month net. And of course, they get zero bonuses or stock options or other benefits. In Japan around 40% of the workforce are classified as non-permanent employees. And most of them are women.

-2 ( +4 / -6 )

I know a few people who work for Toyota and its suppliers who are employed on short-term contracts who make around 180,000 a month net.

If they're so valuable and skilled to be worth paying more, they're free to find out other employers then, aren't they? The market is very good right now for skilled workers.

0 ( +3 / -3 )

Sleaze wins in corporate Japan.

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