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Reverse Peer Report

International Business Machines Corp

Who benchmarks against this company, and what they pay
Ticker: IBM
Industry: DJII
Fiscal Year: FY2025
Who Benchmarks Against This Company
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) | FY2025 Reverse Peer Report
Source: the latest public executive-compensation disclosure of each company that names International Business Machines Corp in its benchmarking peer group.

Most companies know their own benchmarking peer group. Very few know the reverse: which companies name International Business Machines Corp as a compensation benchmark, and what those companies pay. This report maps that network from the latest public executive-compensation disclosures.

Companies benchmark against you
44
Industries represented
14
Their median CEO pay
$29.8M
Your CEO pay
$38.0M
FY2025
Key figures
Reverse peers with a CEO pay figure44
Reverse peers with CEO pay over your CEO's11
Largest recent CEO pay changeDXC Technology Co.: +186%
Largest one-time award yearBroadcom: +7692%, driven by a one-time or multi-year award reported in full in its grant year
Say-on-Pay approval floor80%
Reverse peers with a validated Say-on-Pay vote44
Reverse peers under the floor7
Share of those reverse peers under the floor16%
Share of covered companies under the floor, market-wide11%
Share of covered companies under the floor, same industry12%
Most-represented industries in your reverse-peer set
  • Tech — Hardware (11)
  • Tech — Software (5)
  • Biopharma & Life Sciences (4)
The Reverse-Peer Set
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) | FY2025 Reverse Peer Report
Source: the latest public executive-compensation disclosure of each listed company.

Latest disclosed benchmarking group per company. CEO pay and Say-on-Pay from latest public disclosures.

CompanyIndustryPeer setCEO total payCEO pay YoYSay-on-Pay
Oracle ORCLTech — SoftwareFY2026$627.5M†Not applicable81.8%
Microsoft MSFTTech — SoftwareFY2026$90.6M−6%91.9%
Salesforce CRMTech — SoftwareFY2026$49.4M−10%76.9%
Cisco Systems CSCOTech — HardwareFY2026$48.5M−8%89.0%
DXC Technology Co. DXCTech — SoftwareFY2026$47.8M+186%50.0%
Nvidia Corp. NVDATech — HardwareFY2026$36.3M−27%93.2%
FEDEX Corp. FDXFY2026$27.6M+114%63.3%
Medtronic plc MDTMedTech & DiagnosticsFY2026$22.9M+8%93.7%
Broadcom AVGOTech — HardwareFY2025$205.3M†+7692%‡66.1%
Intel INTCTech — HardwareFY2025$93.0MNot applicable86.5%
UnitedHealth Group Inc UNHInsuranceFY2025$60.9MNot applicable82.5%
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMDTech — HardwareFY2025$55.2M+78%92.1%
American Express Co. AXPSpecialty FinanceFY2025$46.2M+24%93.3%
Walt Disney Co. DISGaming & LodgingFY2025$45.8M+12%85.5%
Eli Lilly and Company LLYBiopharma & Life SciencesFY2025$36.7M+26%96.0%
T-Mobile Us TMUSMedia & TelecomFY2025$35.4MNot applicable73.3%
Mastercard Inc MAPayments & Financial InfrastructureFY2025$35.4M+18%94.9%
Verizon VZMedia & TelecomFY2025$34.3MNot applicable87.1%
Bank of America BACBankingFY2025$33.7M+17%95.3%
ExxonMobil Holdings XOMEnergyFY2025$33.0M−25%92.9%
Visa VPayments & Financial InfrastructureFY2025$31.6M+21%93.3%
Micron Technology, Inc. MUTech — HardwareFY2025$30.9M+3%94.8%
AT&T TMedia & TelecomFY2025$29.9M+13%93.1%
General Motors GMIndustrials & AerospaceFY2025$29.9M+1%93.3%
Qualcomm QCOMTech — HardwareFY2025$29.7M+14%91.8%
Applied Materials, Inc. AMATTech — HardwareFY2025$29.6M+7%92.2%
Accenture ACNFY2025$29.6M+19%87.7%
IQVIA Holdings Inc. IQVBiopharma & Life SciencesFY2025$28.1M+5%80.1%
Pfizer Inc PFEBiopharma & Life SciencesFY2025$27.6M+12%88.0%
Ford Motor FIndustrials & AerospaceFY2025$27.5M+11%95.8%
Chevron Corp CVXFY2025$26.8M−18%97.0%
RTX Corp RTXIndustrials & AerospaceFY2025$24.8M+38%96.2%
CBRE Group, Inc. CBREReal EstateFY2025$24.3M+13%91.4%
Archer-Daniels-Midland ADMConsumer & RetailFY2025$23.9M+11%96.1%
Boeing BATech — HardwareFY2025$23.6M+28%88.7%
Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPETech — HardwareFY2025$23.5M+10%73.5%
Lockheed Martin Corp LMTFY2025$23.5M−1%91.7%
Hp HPQTech — HardwareFY2025$23.1M+19%91.7%
Cvs Health CVSConsumer & RetailFY2025$21.2M+19%94.0%
Merck & Co Inc MRKBiopharma & Life SciencesFY2025$20.8M−10%94.1%
SLB N.V. SLBFY2025$17.3M+0%95.2%
Cdw Corp. CDWConsumer & RetailFY2025$15.0M+49%91.1%
Alphabet GOOGLTech — SoftwareFY2025$10.9M+2%80.8%
Charter Communications, Inc. CHTRFY2025$6.5M+12%76.4%

† Reflects the grant-date value of all awards disclosed for that year, including one-time or multi-year awards reported in full in the year of grant.

‡ A year-over-year change of this magnitude reflects a one-time or multi-year award reported in full in the year of grant, not an annual pay change of that size.

Method and Coverage
International Business Machines Corp (IBM) | FY2025 Reverse Peer Report
Source: public executive-compensation disclosures. Velarion Company Intelligence.
How this report is built

Reverse-peer relationships are read from each company's latest public executive-compensation disclosure: a company appears here only if its own disclosed benchmarking peer group names International Business Machines Corp (the subject of this report). Compensation figures are the disclosed CEO total for each company's latest reported fiscal year. Say-on-Pay is each company's most recent validated shareholder advisory vote. All figures are drawn directly from public disclosures; nothing is estimated or modeled.

Only each company's own most-recently-disclosed benchmarking peer group counts: a company that named International Business Machines Corp in an earlier year but has since dropped it from its current disclosure is not shown. Companies without a resolvable public benchmark set are not shown.

Excluded from the set
Peer references excluded for name ambiguity0
Relationships excluded as no longer current15
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