At $73 million, Nikesh Arora is among the top-paid CEOs

TOKYO: SoftBank Group President Nikesh Arora was paid ¥8.04 billion ($73 million) for the latest fiscal year, putting him among the top paid executives in the world for the second year in a row.

The pay package for Arora, who joined SoftBank from Google in 2014, is in the same range as those for Apple CE O Tim Cook and Walt Disney’s Bob Iger, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s CEO, received compensation totaling ¥130 million ($1.2 million). Arora was paid ¥16.6 billion in the previous fiscal year, when he started working at SoftBank, setting a record for compensation in Japan. SoftBank said at the time that the pay package included a signing bonus. Arora held unvested Google stock options and other securities worth more than $76 million at the end of 2013, according to the last proxy statement before his departure.