Colette Kress Salary and Pay
Colette Kress's base salary as Nvidia CFO was about $912,550, plus stock awards, including one from March 2026 that vests over four years 15.
What is Colette Kress's salary?
InsiderTrades listed Kress's base salary as Nvidia's CFO at $912,550 in March 2026 5. Nvidia has not published separate pay for her interim CEO role in the sources reviewed, and her total pay is mostly stock rather than cash.
Stock awards
Regulatory filings show her pay includes restricted stock units. They include a March 2026 award that vests over four years, which keeps her tied to Nvidia's share price through the CEO search and beyond 1. That is why her wealth moved so sharply when Nvidia's shares fell after Jensen Huang resigned.
No severance agreement
Nvidia's executive officers are employed at will and have no individual employment, severance or change-in-control agreements, according to the company's proxy statement. Reuters noted that many of Nvidia's peers do offer such agreements 1.
How Huang's pay compared
Jensen Huang was paid a salary of $1.69 million, according to the same InsiderTrades listing 5. His forfeited unvested stock pay as he resigned was about $108 million, Bloomberg's index showed, as covered in our report on how much Jensen Huang is worth.
What she has said about the job
Kress has described her approach to Nvidia's rise in public interviews. She told Globes that people used to not recognise a green Nvidia shirt in a supermarket but that the company is now widely known, which she called the supermarket test. She said it was her fourth company in a career of about 35 years 24.