How ExxonMobil Pays
ExxonMobil's CL21 to CL30 professional classification ladder and its Vice President, Senior Vice President and CEO tiers, priced across 33 markets alongside restricted stock that vests half at year five and half at year ten, a $32.999M CEO package at 181:1, and 28 public H-1B wage records.
Band Hierarchy
ExxonMobil publishes no title-by-classification catalogue. The CL21 to CL30 labels are exposed repeatedly by public salary submissions and are used here as an analytical crosswalk; Vice President, Senior Vice President and Senior President are corporate titles the company itself discloses, and the board is a separate governance tier with no classification number.
Professional classification ladder — CL21 through CL30
Officer tier — Vice President
Disclosed executive layer
Track divergence
Hierarchy qualifications and legacy structures
- The crosswalk is strongest for engineering, geoscience, software and analytics roles, where the salary submissions carrying CL labels come from, and weakest for commercial, trading and corporate functions, where ExxonMobil can place equivalent scope differently.
- There is no standing Executive Vice President tier on the current parent-company officer list, so this report does not fabricate an EVP band between Senior Vice President and Chief Executive. Operating structures use President and Senior President instead.
- The hourly, craft and operations population sits outside the CL ladder entirely. No public source maps process operators, console operators, instrument and electrical trades or laboratory technicians to a classification number, and their pay is driven by trade rate, overtime, shift differential and call-out rather than by band.
- Exxon and Mobil combined in 1999 and Pioneer Natural Resources closed in 2024, but no public filing provides a legacy-Exxon, legacy-Mobil or Pioneer-to-CL conversion table, so identical titles do not prove identical inherited pay history.
- Imperial Oil is a majority-owned Canadian affiliate with its own filings, pensions and collective agreements. Calgary, Edmonton and Sarnia are modelled on the parent ladder for comparability, not because a shared band structure is disclosed.
- Senior Vice President and Chief Executive pay is a single global figure that is identical in every country table, so those tiers are carried in the executive section rather than as ladder rows that would be scaled by a local factor.
Peer-level mapping
| Band | Archetype | Peer mapping | Caveat |
|---|---|---|---|
| CL21 | Graduate / Trainee | Chevron and ConocoPhillips graduate engineer, Shell Graduate Programme entry | Peer graduate programmes publish joining ranges that ExxonMobil does not, so the mapping is by scope rather than by a matched published range.Spring and Houston median of a $90,000 to $115,000 modelled graduate range; India graduate trainee submissions cluster near 1.0 million rupees. |
| CL22 | Entry Professional | Chevron entry engineer, Shell early-career professional, technology-sector L3 | Technology-sector equivalents carry far more equity at this level, so a like-for-like total comparison overstates ExxonMobil at entry.Spring and Houston median of a $100,000 to $135,000 range; Levels.fyi places an observed United States CL22 software engineer at $122,633 total. |
| CL23 | Experienced Professional | Chevron and ConocoPhillips experienced engineer, technology-sector L4 | The observed CL23 software sample is thin and reads below CL22, a sampling artefact rather than an inversion in the classification ladder.Spring and Houston median of a $110,000 to $145,000 range; the observed CL23 software submission is $110,000 total and mechanical engineering spans $110,000 to $247,000 across CL23 to CL27. |
| CL24 | Senior Professional | Chevron senior engineer, Shell senior professional, technology-sector senior IC | This is the best-evidenced rung in the ladder in both Spring and Bengaluru, which is why it is used for the cross-market arbitrage comparison.Spring and Houston median of a $125,000 to $165,000 range; observed United States CL24 software pay is $133,000 total and Bengaluru CL24 software pay is about 2.4 million rupees. |
| CL25 | Lead / Advanced Professional | Chevron lead engineer, Shell technical lead, technology-sector staff IC | The technical and people-lead paths begin to diverge here, so two CL25 holders can carry very different scope on identical pay.Spring and Houston median of a $145,000 to $190,000 range; the observed CL25 software submission is $161,614 total on a $158,947 base. Equity is a modelled 0 to 25 share conditional grant valued at the report-date price. |
| CL26 | Principal / First-line Manager | Chevron principal engineer or supervisor, technology-sector principal IC or manager | A CL26 can be a principal specialist or a first-line manager; ExxonMobil publishes no separate range for the two, so one figure covers both.Spring and Houston median of a $170,000 to $225,000 range; the observed CL26 software submission is $208,000 total. Equity is a modelled 20 to 60 share selective grant. |
| CL27 | Senior Principal / Section Head | Chevron senior principal or section head, Shell principal technical expert | Observed submissions thin out sharply above this rung, so CL27 is the last row with a direct third-party anchor rather than a model.Spring and Houston median of a $195,000 to $260,000 range; the observed CL27 software submission is $220,000 total and data science reaches $281,000. Equity is a modelled 40 to 150 share selective grant. |
| CL28 | Manager / Senior Manager | Chevron manager, ConocoPhillips manager, technology-sector senior manager | No public submission covers this rung, so the anchor is an extrapolation of the CL25 to CL27 slope rather than an observation.Spring and Houston median of a modelled $240,000 to $330,000 range with a 100 to 300 share annual or personnel-development grant. |
| CL29 | General Manager / Department Head | Chevron general manager, Shell vice president of a function below officer level | Peer general-manager pay is equally unpublished, so this comparison is a scope crosswalk with no matched figure on either side.Spring and Houston median of a modelled $300,000 to $425,000 range with a 150 to 600 share grant conditioned on enterprise impact and succession. |
| CL30 | Enterprise Director / VP Pipeline | Chevron and ConocoPhillips senior general manager, affiliate managing director | This is the last rung below the disclosed officer tier and the point where selection, not tenure, controls progression.Spring and Houston median of a modelled $375,000 to $550,000 range with a highly selective 300 to 1,200 share grant and no published band ceiling. |
| VP | Vice President | Chevron vice president, ConocoPhillips vice president, affiliate president | Only vice presidents who become named executive officers ever get an individual disclosure, so this row bridges the CL30 model and the disclosed Senior Vice President tier.Spring and Houston median of a modelled $550,000 to $900,000 range with a 1,500 to 5,000 share November grant. Darrin L. Talley's August 2025 Form 4 confirms the tier exists below the named executives but discloses no pay. |
Critical evidence warning
ExxonMobil publishes no global CL21 to CL30 salary table, no worldwide appraisal matrix, no minimum equity-eligibility classification, no city headcount and no country allowance schedule. Every non-executive figure on this page is either a third-party salary observation or a calibrated model built around one, and the modelled rows should be read as a planning envelope rather than as an ExxonMobil offer or policy. Only the Senior Vice President, Chief Executive, director-compensation, equity-plan and benefit-rule figures carry a filing behind them.
Compensation by Band — Spring / Houston
Low / median / high annual values at 1.00× base and 1.00× total-compensation factors versus Spring / Houston. Total equals base plus bonus plus annualized equity.
| Band | Title | Base | Variable | Total TC | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL21 | Graduate / Trainee 0–1 years · modeled | $87K – $118K | 2% | $105K $89K – $120K | — |
| CL22 | Entry Professional 0–2 years · reported | $100K – $135K | 3% | $121K $103K – $139K | — |
| CL23 | Experienced Professional 2–4 years · reported | $108K – $147K | 4% | $133K $113K – $152K | — |
| CL24 | Senior Professional 4–7 years · reported | $123K – $167K | 5% | $152K $129K – $175K | — |
| CL25 | Lead / Advanced Professional 6–10 years · reported | $142K – $193K | 7% | $181K $154K – $208K | $2K |
| CL26 | Principal / First-line Manager 9–14 years · reported | $168K – $227K | 10% | $224K $190K – $257K | $6K |
| CL27 | Senior Principal / Section Head 12–18 years · reported | $193K – $262K | 13% | $272K $231K – $313K | $15K |
| CL28 | Manager / Senior Manager 15–22 years · modeled | $242K – $328K | 18% | $368K $313K – $424K | $32K |
| CL29 | General Manager / Department Head 18–25 years · modeled | $308K – $417K | 25% | $513K $436K – $590K | $60K |
| CL30 | Enterprise Director / VP Pipeline 22–30 years · modeled | $393K – $532K | 35% | $745K $633K – $856K | $120K |
| VP | Vice President 20+ years · modeled | $616K – $834K | 50% | $1.61M $1.37M – $1.85M | $521K |
Total Compensation Range by Band
Total compensation in Spring / Houston across the employee bands. Proxy-disclosed executive cohorts are excluded so the employee bands stay readable.
Global Footprint & Pay Arbitrage
ExxonMobil ran approximately 58,000 regular employees at the end of 2025 across 33 markets modelled here in 16 countries. Spring and Houston is the pay anchor. Every other market is a country factor times a city factor applied to that anchor, and the factor grows with classification because offshore cash compression is level-dependent.
Office and market catalogue — calibration factors versus Spring / Houston
| Location | Likely office profile | Presence | Base | TC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Spring / Houston United States · USD | Global headquarters campus covering corporate, upstream, technology, commercial and shared services | Headquarters campus; 24 of the 28 detailed H-1B wage records | 1.00× | 1.00× |
Baytown United States · USD | Integrated refining, chemical and technology complex on the Houston Ship Channel | Official site directory; two H-1B wage records | 0.98× | 0.98× |
Beaumont United States · USD | Refining and petrochemical operations, including the expanded crude unit | Official site directory | 0.95× | 0.95× |
Baton Rouge United States · USD | Refining, chemicals and lubricants operations in Louisiana | Official site directory | 0.94× | 0.94× |
Midland United States · USD | Permian upstream hub and the centre of the Pioneer talent market | Official site directory; Permian operations | 1.08× | 1.08× |
Dallas / Irving United States · USD | Legacy corporate and services footprint carrying part of the Pioneer integration | Official site directory; one H-1B wage record | 0.98× | 0.98× |
Clinton, New Jersey United States · USD | Research and engineering campus, the historic corporate research centre | Official site directory; Annandale H-1B wage record | 1.10× | 1.10× |
Joliet United States · USD | Refining and operations in the Chicago area | Official site directory | 0.96× | 0.96× |
Bangalore India · INR | Technology, engineering, analytics and global business services capability hub | Official India careers site; Levels.fyi Bengaluru records | 0.14× | 0.14× |
Mumbai India · INR | Commercial, fuels, lubricants and India country leadership | Official India careers site | 0.15× | 0.15× |
Melbourne Australia · AUD | Australian country office covering engineering and operations support | Official site directory; Glassdoor, Indeed and PayScale records | 0.78× | 0.78× |
Perth Australia · AUD | Upstream and LNG talent market on the west coast | Official site directory | 0.84× | 0.84× |
Longford Australia · AUD | Gas plant and operations in Gippsland | Official site directory | 0.74× | 0.74× |
Leatherhead United Kingdom · GBP | Regional commercial and corporate functions for Europe | Official site directory | 0.65× | 0.65× |
Fawley United Kingdom · GBP | Refinery and petrochemical operations, the largest UK site | Official site directory | 0.58× | 0.58× |
London United Kingdom · GBP | Trading, commercial and senior regional roles | Official site directory | 0.74× | 0.74× |
Calgary Canada · CAD | Imperial Oil head office and Canadian upstream and corporate hub | Majority-owned affiliate; separate collective and pension arrangements | 0.75× | 0.75× |
Edmonton Canada · CAD | Strathcona refining and operations | Affiliate site directory | 0.71× | 0.71× |
Sarnia Canada · CAD | Refining and chemicals in Ontario | Affiliate site directory | 0.68× | 0.68× |
Singapore Singapore · SGD | Asia-Pacific commercial, trading, engineering and shared services hub | Official site directory | 0.58× | 0.58× |
Jurong Singapore · SGD | Integrated refining and petrochemical complex on Jurong Island | Official site directory | 0.57× | 0.57× |
Antwerp Belgium · EUR | Refining and chemicals complex | Official site directory | 0.59× | 0.59× |
Brussels / Machelen Belgium · EUR | Regional commercial and corporate roles | Official site directory | 0.64× | 0.64× |
Rotterdam Netherlands · EUR | Refining, trading and commercial activity in the Botlek | Official site directory | 0.62× | 0.62× |
Breda Netherlands · EUR | Commercial and business support functions | Official site directory | 0.60× | 0.60× |
Georgetown Guyana · GYD | Rapid-growth upstream country operation supporting the Stabroek block | Country office; local-hire pay only, rotational terms excluded | 0.28× | 0.28× |
Doha Qatar · QAR | LNG joint-venture and commercial interface | JV country office; local-hire pay only, expatriate terms excluded | 0.75× | 0.75× |
Buenos Aires Argentina · ARS | Global business support and regional functions | Capability hub | 0.20× | 0.20× |
Budapest Hungary · HUF | Global business services and commercial support | Capability hub | 0.30× | 0.30× |
Prague Czech Republic · CZK | Business support and commercial functions | Capability hub | 0.34× | 0.34× |
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia · MYR | Engineering, operations and business support hub | Capability hub | 0.28× | 0.28× |
Port Moresby Papua New Guinea · PGK | PNG LNG country and operations support | Country office; local-hire pay only, rotational terms excluded | 0.34× | 0.34× |
Auckland New Zealand · NZD | Smaller downstream and commercial presence included for coverage | Commercial presence; no local pay disclosure located | 0.69× | 0.69× |
Exact city headcount is not publicly disclosed. The public footprint supports Spring and Houston as the largest corporate concentration and identifies Bangalore, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne and Longford, London and Leatherhead and the major manufacturing sites as significant hubs, but no audited city ranking exists and this catalogue does not rank offices by employee count.
Spring / Houston anchor medians — the basis of every modeled cell
| Band | Base | Stock | Bonus | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL22 | $118K | $0 | $4K | $121K |
| CL23 | $128K | $0 | $5K | $133K |
| CL24 | $145K | $0 | $7K | $152K |
| CL25 | $168K | $2K | $12K | $181K |
| CL26 | $198K | $6K | $20K | $224K |
| CL27 | $228K | $15K | $30K | $272K |
- Spring and Houston is the anchor column. CL22 through CL27 are calibrated to Levels.fyi United States submissions; CL21 and CL28 through Vice President are extrapolations of that slope and carry no direct observation.
- Bangalore is the second best-evidenced market. The calibration deliberately overlaps the observed Bengaluru CL24 software package of about 2.4 million rupees and the CL24 to CL25 data-science observations of 3.01 million to 4.62 million rupees.
- Australia is anchored on Glassdoor engineer submissions of A$132,000 to A$173,000, a Melbourne engineer average near A$155,000 and a PayScale base average of A$140,723 with a A$9,000 average bonus.
- Country factors rise linearly with classification: India adds 8 percentage points of the entry factor per step, Guyana, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea add 4, Singapore 3.5, Qatar 3 and Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and New Zealand about 2. The United States is flat by construction.
- City factors sit on top of the country factor and range from 0.90 at Fawley and Sarnia to 1.15 in London and 1.10 in Clinton, New Jersey and Mumbai. Midland carries a 1.08 premium because of the Permian and Pioneer talent market.
- Every band on this page is local-payroll pay. Guyana, Qatar, Papua New Guinea and the Permian also run rotational and expatriate populations whose housing, security, schooling, rotation, hardship and tax-equalisation elements are not disclosed and are not added.
Model rules
- A total compensation cell is base plus modelled target variable plus the modelled annual share grant valued at the 26 August 2026 reference price of $160.26. No employer benefit load is included.
- The source model added a 17 to 24 percent employer benefits load on top of base, bonus and equity and called the result total compensation. That is employer cost rather than pay, so it has been stripped and every total on this page reconciles to its own components.
- The total-compensation factor for each market is set equal to its base-pay factor. The source model applied one global share-count range to every country, which would have pushed offshore total factors towards parity on a United States equity number rather than on any geographic evidence.
- Modelled share counts are a planning assumption. ExxonMobil states only that award level depends on classification and individual performance and that more than 30 percent of professional employees participate; no grant table, no minimum classification and no country split is published.
- Local-currency figures are report-date conversions at a single 26 August 2026 snapshot, not payroll exchange rates, and the Argentine peso in particular moves fast enough that the local column ages quickly.
- Sign-on payments, relocation, retention awards, overtime, shift differential, call-out pay and site allowances are excluded, which materially understates industrial-site and rotational earnings.
Variable Pay & Annual Cash Incentive
ExxonMobil discloses its executive bonus in full and discloses nothing about the employee bonus. There is no published target-bonus grid by classification, no companywide payout history and no target percentage even for the named executives, so the percentages below CL30 are planning assumptions derived from the observed cash mix rather than company policy.
| Band | Target | Mechanism | Recent payout |
|---|---|---|---|
CL21 Graduate / Trainee | 2% of base | Annual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL22 Entry Professional | 3% of base | Annual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL23 Experienced Professional | 4% of base | Annual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL24 Senior Professional | 5% of base | Annual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL25 Lead / Advanced Professional | 7% of base | Annual cash award; the first classification where selective stock also appears. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL26 Principal / First-line Manager | 10% of base | Annual cash award with a team or section delivery component. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL27 Senior Principal / Section Head | 13% of base | Annual cash award with a section or function delivery component. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL28 Manager / Senior Manager | 18% of base | Annual cash award weighted towards department and business results. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL29 General Manager / Department Head | 25% of base | Annual cash award weighted towards business-line results. | Not publicly disclosed |
CL30 Enterprise Director / VP Pipeline | 35% of base | Executive-style annual cash award on enterprise and business-line results. | Not publicly disclosed |
VP Vice President | 50% of base | Executive-style annual cash award; no vice-president payout is disclosed. | Not publicly disclosed |
SVP Senior Vice President / Senior President | Not publicly disclosed | Formulaic annual cash bonus tied to the year-over-year change in earnings, approved by the Compensation Committee within a programme ceiling. | 2025 bonuses of $2.393M to $2.697M, or 193 to 282 percent of base salary |
CEO Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Not publicly disclosed | Formulaic annual cash bonus tied to the year-over-year change in earnings with individual adjustment inside the programme ceiling. | $4.093M for 2025, 199 percent of base salary and down 10 percent from 2024 |
Executive incentive targets — percent of salary
Employee payout timing and history
Broad employee payout percentages for 2023 to 2025 were not publicly disclosed, and neither was a companywide merit budget, hike month, effective date or off-cycle adjustment rule in any market. The one structural point that is disclosed is direction: the executive bonus is deliberately a smaller share of total direct compensation than the long-dated stock award, so cash upside is capped relative to peers who run larger annual incentive plans.
Sales and special incentives
No company-wide spot bonus, project incentive, deal-closure, utilisation or client-satisfaction formula is publicly disclosed, and no pre- and post-Pioneer variable-pay harmonisation table exists in any filing. Industrial-site earnings are the real gap in this table: overtime, shift differential, call-out and certification premiums can make a process operator competitive with a professional classification, and none of that appears in a target-percentage model.
Equity — RSUs, PSUs, Options & ESPP
Two ExxonMobil programmes are routinely conflated. The 2003 Incentive Program is a selective stock award programme whose current instrument is restricted stock, and the ExxonMobil Savings Plan is a United States defined-contribution plan that happens to be legally designated an employee stock ownership plan. Neither is a universal grant, neither issues options, and there is no discounted employee share purchase plan in any reviewed source.
- The 81.4 percent utilisation figure is a capacity measure against the original 220 million share authorisation over 22 years, not outstanding dilution. Annual dilution from the programme was about 0.2 percent in 2025.
- At the 26 August 2026 reference price of $160.26 the remaining 40,903,325 share authorisation carries an illustrative market value of about $6.56 billion. That is a headroom illustration, not the accounting value of outstanding awards.
- Savings Plan flows in 2025 were about $300 million of employer contributions, about $466 million of participant contributions and about $264 million of dividends, which makes the plan a far larger channel of employee share ownership by headcount than the selective award programme.
- Indian ESOP-trust mechanics, BSE and NSE allotment disclosure and SEBI takeover rules do not apply to the United States-listed parent. The relevant record is the SEC proxy, the Form 10-K, the Form 11-K and Forms 3, 4 and 5.
Stock programme capacity and 2025 grant activity
Vesting — common reported employee schedule
The usual four-year technology vest does not describe ExxonMobil at all. Executive restricted stock vests 50 percent after five years and 50 percent after ten, death is the only disclosed acceleration exception and retirement brings no automatic acceleration, so retention exposure survives role changes and departure from the company. A grant-date value in the proxy is therefore a long way from realisable value: the $25.886 million reported for the chief executive in 2025 cannot produce a single settled share before November 2030.
Eligibility by hierarchy level
- There is no published minimum eligible classification. ExxonMobil says only that award level depends on classification level and individual performance and that more than 30 percent of professional employees participate, so the CL25 threshold used in this model is an inference, not a rule.
- Modelled annual share counts run 0 to 25 at CL25, 20 to 60 at CL26, 40 to 150 at CL27, 100 to 300 at CL28, 150 to 600 at CL29, 300 to 1,200 at CL30 and 1,500 to 5,000 at Vice President. Only the Senior Vice President and Chief Executive counts are observed rather than modelled.
- CL21 to CL24 carry no modelled grant. There is no public evidence of a regular award at those classifications, though an exceptional recognition or retention grant cannot be ruled out.
- Award levels are not scaled by country in this model because ExxonMobil publishes no country split. A Bangalore CL27 and a Spring CL27 are shown with the same modelled share count, which is why the total-compensation factor for each market is set from base pay rather than from total.
- The Savings Plan is the equity route that is actually open to the whole eligible United States population, and its 7 percent match on a 6 percent contribution is a better-evidenced source of share accumulation than any modelled grant on this page.
Indicative annual grant value by band — Spring / Houston
| Band | Annual value (USD) | Median | Shares at $160.26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CL25 | $2K – $3K | $2K | ~9–16 |
| CL26 | $5K – $8K | $6K | ~30–50 |
| CL27 | $11K – $19K | $15K | ~71–119 |
| CL28 | $24K – $40K | $32K | ~150–250 |
| CL29 | $45K – $75K | $60K | ~281–469 |
| CL30 | $90K – $150K | $120K | ~562–938 |
| VP | $391K – $651K | $521K | ~2,438–4,062 |
Annualized planning value (±25%), not the face value of every new-hire grant. Share equivalents use the $160.26 reference price at 26 August 2026, 14:28 UTC and ignore plan valuation rules and PSU performance. Highlighted rows are disclosed grant-date stock awards.
Named executive target equity
| Executive | Target | Units / structure |
|---|---|---|
Darren W. Woods Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 225,000 shares, $25,886,250 grant-date value | Restricted stock granted 25 November 2025 at about $115.05 per share, vesting 50 percent in November 2030 and 50 percent in November 2035. Worth about $36.06 million at the 26 August 2026 reference price, none of it settleable before 2030. 40,334 shares were withheld at grant to cover tax. |
Neil A. Chapman Senior Vice President | 117,800 shares, $13,552,890 grant-date value | Same 25 November 2025 grant date and the same five- and ten-year schedule. 18,849 shares were withheld for tax at grant. |
Jack P. Williams Jr. Senior Vice President | 117,800 shares, $13,552,890 grant-date value | An identical award to Chapman's, which is consistent with a tier-based rather than individually negotiated grant size at Senior Vice President. 16,744 shares were withheld for tax. |
Kathryn A. Mikells Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2025 | 105,400 shares, $12,126,270 grant-date value | Granted 25 November 2025, two months before she retired from the Chief Financial Officer role on 1 February 2026. Retirement brings no automatic acceleration, so the award remains on the five- and ten-year schedule. |
Jim M. Gibbs Senior President, Global Operations | 102,800 shares, $11,827,140 grant-date value | The smallest of the five named-executive grants, on the lowest salary and the highest bonus-to-salary ratio. 4,639 shares were withheld for tax. |
Executive Compensation
2025 Summary Compensation Table values from the 2026 proxy statement. The stock column is a grant-date accounting value for restricted shares that cannot settle before November 2030, so for ExxonMobil the gap between reported pay and realisable pay is wider than at almost any large-cap peer. The other column here combines the proxy's pension-change and all-other-compensation columns so each row reconciles to its disclosed total.
Reading the package
Salary was 6.2 percent of the chief executive's 2025 reported total, the cash bonus 12.4 percent, stock awards 78.4 percent and all other compensation 2.9 percent. The pension-change column was zero for Woods in 2025. The mix is unusual for an oil major in that the cash bonus is deliberately smaller than the stock award, and the stock is restricted for five and ten years rather than the three-year performance cycle most peers run, so the reported figure describes an obligation to stay far more than it describes money received.
ExxonMobil's 2025 figure exceeded every selected peer, driven primarily by the $25.9 million stock award rather than by cash. The two European comparisons are not like for like: Shell and bp report a United Kingdom single figure, which recognises long-term incentive value on vesting rather than at grant, and both are translated here at the 26 August 2026 exchange rate of 0.733061 pounds to the dollar. Shell's £13.8 million and bp's £5.3 million therefore sit on a different measurement basis from the three United States proxies.
Named Executive Officers & Board
The 2026 leadership change was at the Chief Financial Officer level rather than at the top. Kathryn Mikells retired as Chief Financial Officer effective 1 February 2026 and Neil Hansen became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Darren Woods remains Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and the operating leadership tier comprises senior vice presidents alongside Jim Gibbs as Senior President, Global Operations.
Two of the five named executives carry a large pension-change component that inflates their reported totals relative to their pay: $2,095,214 for Jim Gibbs and $1,042,399 for Kathryn Mikells, against zero for Woods, Chapman and Williams. Gibbs is also the clearest illustration that salary rank does not track bonus rank: on the lowest named-executive salary of $849,500 he received a $2,393,000 bonus, 282 percent of base, against 199 percent for the chief executive. The Senior Vice President grants of 117,800 shares to both Chapman and Williams point to a tier-based rather than individually negotiated award size.
Board compensation framework
| Element | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Annual cash retainer | $110,000 | Paid to each non-employee director. The employee chairman receives no separate director compensation. |
| Committee chair | $20,000 | Additional annual retainer on top of the standard cash retainer. |
| Lead independent director | $50,000 | Additional annual retainer, the largest single board premium disclosed. |
| Annual equity grant | 2,500 restricted shares | About $400,650 at the 26 August 2026 reference price, though the proxy grant-date value is the accounting measure. |
| Initial grant on joining | 8,000 restricted shares | About $1,282,080 at the reference price, a one-time award made when a director joins the board. |
Director pay is heavily weighted to shares rather than cash: the 2,500-share annual grant is worth roughly three and a half times the $110,000 cash retainer at the reference price. The board is a governance tier with no classification number and is not part of the employee ladder.
Regional heads and other officers
Corporate vice presidents such as Darrin L. Talley, Vice President of Corporate Strategic Planning, are Section 16 officers with no compensation table, so their pay is visible only through Form 4 share movements. Affiliate presidents who are not named executives have no individual public compensation at all, and Imperial Oil files separately in Canada. Regional head compensation is not separately disclosed in any reviewed source.
Insider Trades — SEC Forms 3/4/5
ExxonMobil reports under United States Section 16, so the governing record is SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5. Indian promoter-group, BSE and NSE, and SEBI takeover frameworks do not apply to the parent issuer. A November 2025 award line is the annual restricted stock grant at a zero acquisition price, and the withholding line on the same date is shares surrendered to cover tax rather than a discretionary market sale. No option exercise activity appears, which is consistent with the company's statement that it has granted no options since 2001.
| Date | Person | Transaction | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-25 | Darren W. Woods Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Award Annual restricted stock grant at a $115.05 grant-date value per share, vesting 50 percent in 2030 and 50 percent in 2035. | 225,000 | — | $25.89M |
| 2025-11-25 | Darren W. Woods Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | Withholding Shares withheld for taxes on the grant, about 17.9 percent of the award. | 40,334 | $115.95 | $4.68M |
| 2025-11-25 | Neil A. Chapman Senior Vice President | Award Annual restricted stock grant on the same five- and ten-year schedule. | 117,800 | — | $13.55M |
| 2025-11-25 | Neil A. Chapman Senior Vice President | Withholding Shares withheld for taxes, about 16.0 percent of the award. | 18,849 | $115.95 | $2.19M |
| 2025-11-25 | Jack P. Williams Jr. Senior Vice President | Award An award identical to Chapman's, consistent with a tier-based grant size. | 117,800 | — | $13.55M |
| 2025-11-25 | Jack P. Williams Jr. Senior Vice President | Withholding Shares withheld for taxes, about 14.2 percent of the award. | 16,744 | $115.95 | $1.94M |
| 2025-11-25 | Jim M. Gibbs Senior President, Global Operations | Award The smallest of the five named-executive grants in the November 2025 cycle. | 102,800 | — | $11.83M |
| 2025-11-25 | Jim M. Gibbs Senior President, Global Operations | Withholding Only 4.5 percent of the award was withheld, far below the other named executives, which points to a different personal withholding election. | 4,639 | $115.95 | $538K |
| 2025-08-22 | Darrin L. Talley Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning | Sale The only open-market sale in the reviewed period and the only public trace of pay at the corporate vice-president tier. | 2,158 | $110.45 | $238K |
Reading guide
Benefits & Perks
ExxonMobil's benefit disclosure is strong where a filing or a statute forces it and thin everywhere else. The United States Savings Plan is documented in a Form 11-K, statutory floors in India, Australia, the United Kingdom and Singapore are published by governments, and almost everything else is advertised on careers pages without a value attached. Rows are grouped by the regulatory bloc that actually governs them rather than city by city.
United States
- Savings — 7 percent company match on the first 6 percent contributed. Participants may generally contribute up to 20 percent of pay. Company contributions vest after three years, at age 65 or on death; participant money is vested immediately. The plan is designated a non-leveraged employee stock ownership plan and held $7.361 billion of Exxon stock at the 2025 year-end. [official]
- Retirement — Defined-benefit pension alongside the savings plan. ExxonMobil is one of the few large United States employers still running a defined-benefit pension in parallel with a savings plan. The formula varies by plan and hire cohort and is not published; the pension-change column in the proxy ranged from zero to $2.095 million across the 2025 named executives. [official]
- Health and protection — Medical, dental, vision, life and disability cover. Advertised on the United States careers materials. The provider, premium split and deductibles are not disclosed in any public global schedule. [official]
- Leave and flexibility — Paid time off, company holidays and the Flex Your Day programme. Flex Your Day is the named flexible-working programme. Exact entitlement varies by service and role and no day count is published. [official]
Global programs
- Learning and mobility — Structured development, technical training, tuition support and internal mobility. Published in the Investing in People materials and on country careers pages. Platform vendors, certification reimbursement caps and any sabbatical policy are not disclosed globally. [official]
- Employee assistance — Employee assistance and family support programmes. Appear in several market materials. The provider and coverage are market-specific and no global vendor is named. [official]
- Pay equity — Adjusted United States pay gaps below 0.5 percent. ExxonMobil reports adjusted gaps under 0.5 percent between women and men and between minority and white employees in its latest people disclosure. This is a self-reported adjusted figure rather than an audited unadjusted median gap. [official]
- Industrial-site earnings — Overtime, shift differential, call-out and certification premiums. These drive real earnings at the refining, chemical and gas-plant sites and none of them is captured in a salary band. Public data puts United States process-operator total pay at roughly $73,000 to $114,000, where site, overtime and union status can dominate the range. [reported]
Benefit fields not publicly quantified
The following were searched for and not found in any current public ExxonMobil schedule: the India insurer and family-floater limit, India paternity, earned, sick and casual leave counts, any National Pension System employer contribution, food-coupon and phone or internet allowance amounts, the United States medical premium share and any health savings account seed, country employee-assistance vendors, a sabbatical policy and a global certification cap. They are recorded as not publicly disclosed rather than estimated.
Performance Review & Pay Progression
ExxonMobil states that stock award levels depend on classification level and individual performance and describes a pay-for-performance philosophy, but it publishes no rating scale, no calibration percentages, no merit matrix and no promotion rule. The only dated milestones in the whole cycle are executive ones.
Not publicly disclosed
Modeled promotion planning timeline
| Band | Years to next scope | Promotion hike | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CL21 | 1–2 years to CL22, typically 8 to 15 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL22 | 2–3 years to CL23, typically 8 to 15 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL23 | 2–4 years to CL24, typically 10 to 18 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL24 | 3–5 years to CL25, typically 10 to 20 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL25 | 3–5 years to CL26, typically 12 to 22 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL26 | 3–6 years to CL27, typically 12 to 25 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL27 | 4–7 years to CL28, typically 15 to 25 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL28 | 4–8 years to CL29, typically 15 to 30 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL29 | 5–10 years to CL30, typically 20 to 35 percent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| CL30 | Discretionary; role and market dependent | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
| VP | Board or committee appointment | Not disclosed | Modeled planning interval |
Executive timing is the one part of the cycle with real dates. Bonus and stock decisions are taken at the Compensation Committee's November meeting, the 2025 grant date was 25 November 2025 and 2026 executive salary changes took effect on 1 January 2026. For everyone else the sequence is goal setting and talent review during the year and assessment and calibration at year end, with the calendar, the labels and the outcome distribution all unpublished. Promotions, market corrections, retention awards and mobility adjustments occur off-cycle without any published rate card.
Pay progression evidence
Modelled career planning, not ExxonMobil policy: CL21 to CL22 typically takes 1 to 2 years for an 8 to 15 percent increase; CL22 to CL23 2 to 3 years for 8 to 15 percent; CL23 to CL24 2 to 4 years for 10 to 18 percent; CL24 to CL25 3 to 5 years for 10 to 20 percent; CL25 to CL26 3 to 5 years for 12 to 22 percent; CL26 to CL27 3 to 6 years for 12 to 25 percent; CL27 to CL28 4 to 7 years for 15 to 25 percent; CL28 to CL29 4 to 8 years for 15 to 30 percent; and CL29 to CL30 5 to 10 years for 20 to 35 percent. Above CL30 progression is discretionary and role and market dependent. The compounding matters more than any single step: the modelled Spring base rises 4.5 times from CL21 to CL30, and roughly two-thirds of that comes from promotion rather than from merit increases within a classification.
H-1B / LCA Visa Footprint — United States
ExxonMobil sponsors through several separate legal entities, which fragments the public record and makes entity-level averages unreliable. Labour condition application wages are offered base salary only, so they exclude bonus and any stock award, and an application is neither a petition nor a hire.
Dataset summary
| Dataset | Result | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| H1BGrader entity profile | 18 FY2025 and 29 partial FY2026 filings for ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company | The most consistent single-entity series, and the entity that files most of the technical roles. |
| H1BData corporate records | 5 FY2025 filings for Exxon Mobil Corporation averaging $426,148 | A very small and heavily skewed sample dominated by senior petroleum and engineering roles; it should not be read as a corporate average. |
| Public H-1B datasets, Global Services | 5 FY2025 filings for ExxonMobil Global Services Company averaging $396,764 | Another small skewed sample. Entity aliases matter: Upstream Integrated Solutions and other affiliates file under separate employer names again. |
| MyVisaJobs industry report | Mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas extraction FY2025 sponsor context | Used for sector framing rather than for an ExxonMobil-specific count. |
City-level H-1B wage history
| City | P25 | Median | P75 | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Spring, Texas Combined legal-entity sample at the headquarters campus; base salary only. | $144K | $178,810 | $229K | 24 |
Baytown, Texas Very small sample from the integrated refining and chemical complex. | $187K | $187,760 | $189K | 2 |
Annandale, New Jersey A single filing at the Clinton and Annandale research campus. | $169K | $168,700 | $169K | 1 |
Irving, Texas A single technology filing at the legacy Dallas and Irving footprint. | $187K | $186,580 | $187K | 1 |
All detailed records The combined reconstructed sample across every identified entity and worksite. | $154K | $181,885 | $212K | 28 |
All-years aggregates. P25/P75 are rounded reconstruction values marked modeled; medians and record counts are the stronger fields.
Selected title / worksite records
| Title | Worksite | Proffered wage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior petroleum and engineering roles | Spring, Texas | $324,680 – $543,687 | The top of the visa record and well above any modelled classification base, which suggests these are CL29 and above scarce-discipline hires. |
| Technology and engineering professional roles | Spring, Texas | $135,000 – $231,850 | Spans roughly CL23 through CL27 on the anchor ladder, and is the band that best matches the modelled professional range. |
| Engineer | Baytown, Texas | $185,880 – $189,640 | Industrial-site engineering filings sit close to the Spring median despite the 0.98 city factor used in the model. |
| Experimental physicist or specialist | Annandale, New Jersey | $168,700 | A research-campus filing, the only New Jersey record in the sample. |
| SharePoint and technology role | Irving, Texas | $186,580 | The only Irving record, and evidence that the legacy Dallas footprint still files technical sponsorships. |
Reading the data correctly
- A labour condition application is a filing, not a hire. Certified applications exceed petitions and petitions exceed employees.
- Offered base excludes the annual cash award and any restricted stock, so a visa wage is not comparable with the total-compensation column elsewhere on this page.
- Entity fragmentation is the single biggest limitation here. Exxon Mobil Corporation, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, ExxonMobil Global Services Company and ExxonMobil Upstream Integrated Solutions Company are separate employer names in the public datasets.
- Small samples, amendments and duplicate cases distort entity averages badly; the $426,148 and $396,764 entity averages each rest on five records.
- The whole sample is 28 detailed records against a workforce of roughly 58,000, so it describes scarce-discipline hiring at two Texas sites rather than ExxonMobil pay in general.
Key Nuances & Insights
More than 30 percent of professional employees participate in stock awards. That is broad for an industrial company and it also means a large professional population, and effectively the entire hourly and craft workforce, receives no grant at all. There is no published minimum classification, so eligibility is a management judgement rather than a rule you can qualify for.
The $25.886 million stock line in the chief executive's 2025 total is a grant-date accounting value for shares that cannot settle before November 2030, with half restricted until November 2035. Any ExxonMobil equity number you are quoted should be tested against the vesting date before it is treated as pay.
Five- and ten-year vesting is far longer than the four-year technology pattern or the three-year performance cycle most oil majors run. Death is the only disclosed acceleration exception and retirement brings none, so the retention hook survives leaving the company.
The 2003 Incentive Program permits options and stock appreciation rights, but the company states none have been granted since 2001. That is why no option exercise appears anywhere in the Form 4 record, and why an offer conversation about strike prices has no ExxonMobil equivalent.
The United States Savings Plan is legally designated an employee stock ownership plan under ERISA. It is a defined-contribution plan with a 7 percent match on a 6 percent contribution that happens to hold $7.361 billion of company stock, and it is not an India-style option pool. Conflating the two is the single most common misreading of ExxonMobil equity.
ExxonMobil remains one of the few large United States employers operating a defined-benefit pension alongside a savings plan. Its size is visible in the proxy pension-change column, which added $2.095 million to one named executive's reported total and nothing to three others in the same year.
Jim Gibbs earned the lowest named-executive salary at $849,500 and the second-highest bonus-to-salary ratio at 282 percent, against 199 percent for the chief executive on a $2,058,000 salary. The bonus formula tracks earnings change and individual contribution rather than base position.
The chief executive's bonus fell from $4.787 million in 2023 to $4.548 million in 2024 and $4.093 million in 2025, and the 2025 programme ceiling itself declined about 10 percent. The pay ratio fell from 232:1 to 181:1 for the same reason, not because median pay rose.
Bangalore base pay sits at about 0.14 times the Spring anchor at CL21 and about 0.25 times at Vice President, so the multiple falls from roughly seven times to roughly four. Australia at 0.78 times, the United Kingdom at 0.64 times and Canada at 0.75 times start far closer and compress far less, because the slope is 2 percentage points per step rather than 8.
Georgetown, Doha, Port Moresby, Perth and Midland all run rotational or assignment populations whose packages carry housing, security, schooling, rotation, hardship and tax-equalisation elements. None of that is disclosed, none of it is in these bands, and a local-national band in those markets is not comparable to a rotational package sitting next to it.
Overtime, shift differential, call-out and certification premiums can put a process operator at Baytown, Fawley or Jurong ahead of a professional classification on the same site. Public data puts United States process-operator total pay at roughly $73,000 to $114,000, and no public source maps operations or craft roles to a CL number at all.
Imperial Oil is a majority-owned Canadian affiliate that files separately and runs its own pensions, collective agreements and benefits. Roughly half the 2,000 roles targeted in the September 2025 restructuring related to Imperial Oil, which is a useful reminder that a Calgary offer is not governed by parent-company practice.
The Pioneer Natural Resources acquisition closed in May 2024 and nearly 400 Texas positions were scheduled for separation across 2024 to 2026. No public filing discloses a harmonisation matrix, so two people on the same classification in Midland can have very different inherited pay, equity history and severance terms.
Two automated rigs were operating in August 2026 with a target of automating half the Permian fleet by 2028. That moves demand towards controls, robotics, data and reliability skills in a market where Midland already carries the highest city factor in the United States at 1.08.
Research control
ExxonMobil's 2025 chief executive pay of $32.999 million exceeded Chevron at $26.828 million, ConocoPhillips at $23.450 million, Shell at about $18.825 million and bp at about $7.230 million, with the gap driven by the stock award rather than by cash. Its 181:1 ratio is comparatively modest for that pay level because the median employee is paid $183,084, a high median that reflects a workforce weighted towards engineering, geoscience and skilled operations. On the employee side the package is high-cash and low-equity relative to technology employers at the same total: the modelled stock share of total compensation is zero below CL25 and only reaches about a third at Vice President.
Evidence classification
| Label | Meaning | Examples and permitted use |
|---|---|---|
| Verified | An ExxonMobil SEC filing, an official ExxonMobil page or a government statutory rule. | Executive pay, the pay ratio, director compensation, equity plan terms and capacity, Savings Plan figures, headcount, revenue and every statutory benefit floor. |
| Reported | A named third-party dataset with observable records, chiefly Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, Indeed, PayScale and the visa aggregators. | The CL22 to CL27 Spring anchors, the Bengaluru and Melbourne calibrations, the process-operator range and the H-1B wage distributions. |
| Modeled | The Spring and Houston anchor multiplied by a country factor, a seniority slope and a city factor, then by the 26 August 2026 exchange snapshot. | CL21, CL28 through Vice President, every city without a direct observation, and all modelled variable-pay and share-count ranges. |
| Not publicly disclosed | No source in the research bundle supports a figure. | Recorded as such rather than estimated, including attrition, rating buckets, merit budgets and city headcount. |
Explicit “Not publicly disclosed” index
Known gaps and diligence before relying on a cell
- 1Senior Vice President and Chief Executive pay is a single worldwide figure that the source model repeated identically in all 33 city tables. Those two rows are therefore carried in the executive section only and are excluded from the band ladder, so that the location factors interpolate across CL21 to Vice President, the population they actually fit, instead of being dragged towards parity by a global officer number.
- 2The source model added a 17 to 24 percent employer benefits load into what it called total compensation. That is employer cost rather than pay, so it has been stripped and every total on this page is rebuilt as base plus modelled variable plus modelled equity.
- 3Total-compensation factors are set equal to base-pay factors for every market. The source model applied one global share-count range to all countries, which would have made offshore total factors drift towards parity on a United States equity number rather than on geographic evidence.
- 4The hourly, craft, operations and retail population is deliberately outside the band table. Its pay is driven by trade rate, overtime, shift differential and call-out and moves independently of the professional ladder across locations, and no public source maps it to a classification.
- 5Two headcount figures coexist and both are correct on their own basis: approximately 58,000 regular employees at year-end 2025 in the Form 10-K, and 60,157 in the broader pay-ratio measurement population at 15 October 2025.
- 6Two chief executive totals coexist for 2025: $32,998,628 in the Summary Compensation Table and $33,059,068 in the pay-ratio calculation. The difference is pay-ratio methodology and both come from the same proxy.
- 7Modelled employee share grants are valued at the 26 August 2026 reference price of $160.26, while the disclosed executive grants are valued at their 25 November 2025 grant-date price of about $115.05. The two prices are 39 percent apart, so equity comparisons between the modelled and disclosed rows are not on the same basis.
- 8Guyana, Qatar, Papua New Guinea, Argentina, Hungary, Czechia, Malaysia and New Zealand rest on low-confidence country factors with no direct local salary observation. New Zealand in particular is included for coverage and has neither a pay nor a benefit disclosure behind it.
- 9CL21 and CL28 through Vice President carry no direct third-party observation. They extrapolate the CL22 to CL27 slope, and the Vice President row in particular sits in the disclosure gap between the last observed classification and the first disclosed officer.
FX rates used — 1 USD equals, snapshot 2026-08-26
Single-date conversion layer for comparability; it ignores payroll-date FX, tax, purchasing power, benefits valuation and hedging. Compensation intelligence, not legal, tax, investment, immigration or employment advice.
Source register — 36 sources
| S1 | Exxon Mobil Corporation 2026 Definitive Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026-04-29. Executive compensation, pay ratio, director compensation, stock award design, grant activity and programme governance. |
| S2 | Exxon Mobil Corporation 2025 Form 10-K · SEC · 2026-02-18. Employees, revenue, financials and the incentive-programme share authorisation. |
| S3 | ExxonMobil Savings Plan Form 11-K for 2025 · SEC · 2026-06-10. Savings plan assets, ESOP status, contributions, company stock holdings and vesting. |
| S4 | Exxon Mobil Corporation 2003 Incentive Program · SEC exhibit · 2018 amendment of the 2003 plan. Eligible employees, award types, grant-price constraints and the original authorisation. |
| S5 | Investing in people: A place to thrive · ExxonMobil · 2026-04-09. Stock participation rate, the classification and performance linkage, pay-for-performance and pay-equity statements. |
| S6 | Management Committee · ExxonMobil · 2026-08-27. Current management committee roles and the CFO transition. |
| S7 | Corporate and affiliate officers · ExxonMobil · 2026-08-27. Current officer titles and affiliate structure, and confirmation that no standing EVP tier exists. |
| S8 | 2026 first-quarter Form 10-Q · SEC · 2026-05-01. Current legal and financial context. |
| S9 | Redomiciling the company from New Jersey to Texas · ExxonMobil · 2026-03-10. Redomiciliation proposal and rationale. |
| S10 | 2026 annual shareholder meeting · ExxonMobil · 2026-05-27. Shareholder approval and governance changes. |
| S11 | ExxonMobil salaries · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed classification salary submissions across functions. |
| S12 | ExxonMobil software engineer salaries · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed United States CL22 to CL27 compensation, the backbone of the Spring anchor. |
| S13 | ExxonMobil software engineer salaries, India · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed Bengaluru CL24 pay of about 2.4 million rupees and an India median of about 2.98 million. |
| S14 | ExxonMobil data scientist salaries, India · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed CL24 to CL25 data-science compensation of 3.01 million to 4.62 million rupees. |
| S15 | ExxonMobil salaries, United States · Glassdoor · 2026-08-27. Broad United States title ranges and the process-operator total-pay range. |
| S16 | ExxonMobil salaries, India · Glassdoor India · 2026-08-27. Broad India title ranges including the graduate engineering trainee starting range. |
| S17 | ExxonMobil salaries, Australia · Glassdoor Australia · 2026-08-27. Australian engineer and manager ranges. |
| S18 | ExxonMobil engineer salaries, Melbourne · Glassdoor Australia · 2026-08-27. Melbourne engineer submissions averaging about A$155,000 base. |
| S19 | ExxonMobil engineer pay, Melbourne · Indeed Australia · 2026-08-27. Small-sample Melbourne estimate of A$128,182 across three postings. |
| S20 | ExxonMobil salaries, Australia · PayScale · 2026-08-27. Australian average base of A$140,723 and average bonus of A$9,000. |
| S21 | ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company H-1B data · H1BGrader · 2026-08-27. Labour condition application and petition records by legal entity. |
| S22 | Exxon Mobil Corporation H-1B salary records · H1BData.info · 2026-08-27. Corporate legal-entity wage records by worksite. |
| S23 | Mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas H-1B sponsor report · MyVisaJobs · 2026-08-27. FY2025 sector filing counts and average offered salary for context. |
| S24 | Exxon Mobil to cut 2,000 jobs globally · Reuters · 2025-09-30. Global restructuring scale and the Imperial Oil share of it. |
| S25 | Exxon cuts nearly 400 Texas jobs after the Pioneer deal · Reuters · 2024-11-14. Pioneer integration reductions and WARN timing. |
| S26 | Exxon turns to automated drilling in the Permian · Reuters · 2026-08-24. Automation programme and the skill-mix shift in the Permian. |
| S27 | USD reference exchange rates · ExchangeRate-API · 2026-08-26. The single FX snapshot behind every local-currency figure on this page. |
| S28 | Chevron 2026 Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026. Peer chief executive compensation. |
| S29 | ConocoPhillips 2026 Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026. Peer chief executive compensation. |
| S30 | Shell Annual Report and Accounts 2025 · Shell · 2026. Peer chief executive single-figure remuneration of £13.8 million. |
| S31 | bp Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025 · bp · 2026. Peer chief executive single-figure remuneration of £5.3 million. |
| S32 | Provident Fund information for employees · Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, India · 2026-08-27. India statutory provident fund rates and wage ceiling. |
| S33 | Super guarantee · Australian Taxation Office · 2026-08-27. The 12 percent superannuation guarantee from 1 July 2025. |
| S34 | Annual leave · Fair Work Ombudsman · 2026-08-27. Australian statutory annual leave including the shiftworker entitlement. |
| S35 | Workplace pension contributions · GOV.UK · 2026-08-27. United Kingdom auto-enrolment minimum contributions. |
| S36 | CPF contribution rates · Central Provident Fund Board, Singapore · 2026-08-27. Singapore statutory contribution rates for 2026. |
Recent News & Workforce Trend
ExxonMobil's 2026 has been a governance and restructuring story rather than a compensation one. No companywide salary action, hike percentage or pay freeze was announced in any reviewed source, while headcount fell by about 3,000 in a single year.
The 2025 reduction reflects restructuring, portfolio changes and Pioneer integration rather than a published attrition rate, and ExxonMobil discloses no attrition figure in any period. The 60,157-employee pay-ratio measurement population at 15 October 2025 is larger than the roughly 58,000 regular employees reported at year-end because the proxy used a broader definition, so the two series should not be compared directly.
Automation shifts demand towards controls, robotics, data and reliability skills in Midland, which already carries the highest United States city factor in this model at 1.08.
The redomiciliation followed shareholder approval in May 2026. No compensation plan reset, band restructure or benefit change was disclosed alongside it.
Against $25.652 billion of total plan investments, about 28.7 percent, with roughly $300 million of employer contributions and $264 million of dividends for the year.
Governance changes were approved without any change to the incentive programme authorisation or to the executive pay design.
A 181:1 pay ratio against a $183,084 median employee, down from 232:1 for 2024, with the cash bonus falling 10 percent year on year.
The disclosure also states that award levels depend on classification level and individual performance, and reports adjusted United States pay gaps below 0.5 percent.
Sales and other operating revenue of $323.904 billion, and 40,903,325 shares still available for future awards under the 2003 Incentive Program.
Kathryn Mikells retired from the role two months after receiving a 105,400-share restricted stock grant that remains on the five- and ten-year schedule.
Awards of 102,800 to 225,000 shares at a $115.05 grant-date value, with 80,566 shares withheld across the group for tax on the same day. 2026 executive salary changes took effect on 1 January 2026.
Roughly 3 to 4 percent of the workforce, with around half related to majority-owned Imperial Oil, which files and sets its own terms separately in Canada.
Separations were phased across 2024 to 2026 while more than 1,900 Pioneer employees were offered roles, with no public harmonisation table for their inherited pay.
The deal expanded the Permian workforce and made Midland a distinct talent market, but no band-conversion table between the two companies was ever published.