ExxonMobil
Compensation Insight

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.

~58,000 employees · NYSE: XOM · Exxon Mobil Corporation · Formed 1999 · Spring, Texas · FY ends 31 December
Regular employees
~58,000
Year-end 2025, down from about 61,000 in 2024. The proxy used a broader 60,157-employee population at 15 October 2025 for the pay ratio.
FY2025 revenue
$323.9B
Sales and other operating revenue reported in the 2025 Form 10-K.
CEO total pay
$33.00M
Darren W. Woods in the 2025 Summary Compensation Table, of which $25.886 million was a grant-date stock value.
CEO pay ratio
181:1
Down from 232:1 in 2024. The proxy applied a $33,059,068 CEO figure against a $183,084 median employee.
Median employee pay
$183,084
2025 proxy median across the measurement population, down from $190,266 for 2024.
Stock plan capacity
40.9M shares
Available for future awards at the 2025 year-end against an original 220 million authorisation, an 81.4 percent utilisation.
Savings Plan in XOM stock
$7.36B
About 28.7 percent of the $25.652 billion of Savings Plan investments reported in the 2025 Form 11-K.
H-1B median base
$181,885
Across 28 detailed labour condition application records; the 25th to 75th percentile band is $153,594 to $212,177.
Attrition rate
Not disclosed
No global or quarterly attrition rate appears in any reviewed ExxonMobil filing or disclosure.
Locations
United States
India
Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Singapore
Belgium
Netherlands
Guyana
Qatar
Argentina
Hungary
Czech Republic
Malaysia
Papua New Guinea
New Zealand
1.00× base / 1.00× TC vs Spring / Houston

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

CL30
Enterprise Director / VP PipelineLeadership · variable 35% · modeled
Enterprise director, affiliate executive or major-function leader
CL29
General Manager / Department HeadLeadership · variable 25% · modeled
Large department head, general manager or enterprise technical leader
CL28
Manager / Senior ManagerManagement / senior IC · variable 18% · modeled
Department manager, senior manager, programme or product leader
CL27
Senior Principal / Section HeadIC or management · variable 13% · reported
Senior principal, technical authority, section head or senior manager
CL26
Principal / First-line ManagerIC or management · variable 10% · reported
Principal engineer, section supervisor or first-line manager
CL25
Lead / Advanced ProfessionalIC / emerging manager · variable 7% · reported
Lead engineer, technical lead, advanced specialist or occasional team lead
CL24
Senior ProfessionalIC · variable 5% · reported
Senior engineer, senior developer, data scientist or senior analyst
CL23
Experienced ProfessionalIC · variable 4% · reported
Experienced engineer, analyst, developer or project professional
CL22
Entry ProfessionalIC · variable 3% · reported
Engineer, software engineer, geoscience analyst or finance analyst
CL21
Graduate / TraineeIC foundation · variable 2% · modeled
Graduate engineer, analyst trainee, laboratory or commercial trainee

Officer tier — Vice President

VP
Vice PresidentExecutive · variable 50% · modeled
Corporate officer, affiliate president or major global-function leader

Disclosed executive layer

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Darren W. Woods
Fully disclosed in the proxy statement, including salary, bonus, stock award, pay ratio and grant terms.
Senior Vice Presidents and Senior President
Neil A. Chapman, Jack P. Williams Jr., Neil Hansen as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from February 2026, and Jim M. Gibbs as Senior President, Global Operations
Named executive officers with full Summary Compensation Table disclosure. Kathryn A. Mikells appears in the 2025 table and retired as Chief Financial Officer on 1 February 2026.
Corporate Vice Presidents
Darrin L. Talley as Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning
Visible only through Section 16 filings. No compensation table covers a vice president who is not a named executive.
Affiliate presidents and managing directors
Imperial Oil, ExxonMobil Canada, Esso Australia and other national affiliate leadership
No individual public compensation. Imperial Oil files separately in Canada and should not be assumed to share parent-company pay or benefit rules.
Board of Directors
Non-employee directors
Retainers and restricted share grants are disclosed in the proxy. The employee chairman receives no separate director pay.
VerifiedOnly the officer tier carries a company disclosure. CL21 through CL30 and the Vice President row are reconstructions, and the classification labels themselves come from employee submissions rather than from any ExxonMobil publication.

Track divergence

CL21 to CL24
Everyone sits on the individual contributor path and the package is almost entirely cash. Modelled variable pay is 2 to 5 percent of base and there is no public evidence of a regular stock grant at these classifications.
CL25 to CL26
The technical authority and people-lead paths begin to separate, and this is where selective stock first appears. A CL26 can plausibly be a principal specialist or a first-line manager on the same range.
CL27 to CL28
Senior technical authority and section-head or manager scope run in parallel. Variable pay roughly doubles from 13 to 18 percent of base and the modelled share grant triples.
CL29 to CL30
Both paths converge on enterprise leadership. Progression becomes selection rather than tenure, and the modelled grant range widens from 150 to 600 shares at CL29 to 300 to 1,200 at CL30.
Vice President and above
Corporate titles replace classification numbers. Disclosure flips from nothing to everything: a vice president who becomes a named executive officer moves from no public pay to a full Summary Compensation Table.

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

BandArchetypePeer mappingCaveat
CL21Graduate / TraineeChevron and ConocoPhillips graduate engineer, Shell Graduate Programme entryPeer 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.
CL22Entry ProfessionalChevron entry engineer, Shell early-career professional, technology-sector L3Technology-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.
CL23Experienced ProfessionalChevron and ConocoPhillips experienced engineer, technology-sector L4The 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.
CL24Senior ProfessionalChevron senior engineer, Shell senior professional, technology-sector senior ICThis 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.
CL25Lead / Advanced ProfessionalChevron lead engineer, Shell technical lead, technology-sector staff ICThe 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.
CL26Principal / First-line ManagerChevron principal engineer or supervisor, technology-sector principal IC or managerA 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.
CL27Senior Principal / Section HeadChevron senior principal or section head, Shell principal technical expertObserved 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.
CL28Manager / Senior ManagerChevron manager, ConocoPhillips manager, technology-sector senior managerNo 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.
CL29General Manager / Department HeadChevron general manager, Shell vice president of a function below officer levelPeer 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.
CL30Enterprise Director / VP PipelineChevron and ConocoPhillips senior general manager, affiliate managing directorThis 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.
VPVice PresidentChevron vice president, ConocoPhillips vice president, affiliate presidentOnly 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.

BandTitleBaseVariableTotal TCEquity
CL21
Graduate / Trainee
0–1 years · modeled
$87K$118K2%
$105K
$89K$120K
CL22
Entry Professional
0–2 years · reported
$100K$135K3%
$121K
$103K$139K
CL23
Experienced Professional
2–4 years · reported
$108K$147K4%
$133K
$113K$152K
CL24
Senior Professional
4–7 years · reported
$123K$167K5%
$152K
$129K$175K
CL25
Lead / Advanced Professional
6–10 years · reported
$142K$193K7%
$181K
$154K$208K
$2K
CL26
Principal / First-line Manager
9–14 years · reported
$168K$227K10%
$224K
$190K$257K
$6K
CL27
Senior Principal / Section Head
12–18 years · reported
$193K$262K13%
$272K
$231K$313K
$15K
CL28
Manager / Senior Manager
15–22 years · modeled
$242K$328K18%
$368K
$313K$424K
$32K
CL29
General Manager / Department Head
18–25 years · modeled
$308K$417K25%
$513K
$436K$590K
$60K
CL30
Enterprise Director / VP Pipeline
22–30 years · modeled
$393K$532K35%
$745K
$633K$856K
$120K
VP
Vice President
20+ years · modeled
$616K$834K50%
$1.61M
$1.37M$1.85M
$521K
Headquarters campus; 24 of the 28 detailed H-1B wage records · 16 reported band cellsReportedModeledVerifiedBase and total use the modelled low-to-high band from the source model, which is roughly plus or minus 12 to 15 percent around the median at professional classifications and widens towards plus or minus 25 percent at CL29 and above. Equity ranges are the modelled share-count band valued at the report-date price.

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.

CL21$89K$120KCL22$103K$139KCL23$113K$152KCL24$129K$175KCL25$154K$208KCL26$190K$257KCL27$231K$313KCL28$313K$424KCL29$436K$590KCL30$633K$856K$0$200K$400K$600K$800K$1.00M

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.

~58,000
Regular employees at year-end 2025
33
Markets modelled across 16 countries
0.14× to 0.25×
Bangalore base against Spring, CL21 to Vice President
~2,000
Roles targeted in the September 2025 restructuring

Office and market catalogue — calibration factors versus Spring / Houston

LocationLikely office profilePresenceBaseTC
Spring / Houston
United States · USD
Global headquarters campus covering corporate, upstream, technology, commercial and shared servicesHeadquarters campus; 24 of the 28 detailed H-1B wage records1.00×1.00×
Baytown
United States · USD
Integrated refining, chemical and technology complex on the Houston Ship ChannelOfficial site directory; two H-1B wage records0.98×0.98×
Beaumont
United States · USD
Refining and petrochemical operations, including the expanded crude unitOfficial site directory0.95×0.95×
Baton Rouge
United States · USD
Refining, chemicals and lubricants operations in LouisianaOfficial site directory0.94×0.94×
Midland
United States · USD
Permian upstream hub and the centre of the Pioneer talent marketOfficial site directory; Permian operations1.08×1.08×
Dallas / Irving
United States · USD
Legacy corporate and services footprint carrying part of the Pioneer integrationOfficial site directory; one H-1B wage record0.98×0.98×
Clinton, New Jersey
United States · USD
Research and engineering campus, the historic corporate research centreOfficial site directory; Annandale H-1B wage record1.10×1.10×
Joliet
United States · USD
Refining and operations in the Chicago areaOfficial site directory0.96×0.96×
Bangalore
India · INR
Technology, engineering, analytics and global business services capability hubOfficial India careers site; Levels.fyi Bengaluru records0.14×0.14×
Mumbai
India · INR
Commercial, fuels, lubricants and India country leadershipOfficial India careers site0.15×0.15×
Melbourne
Australia · AUD
Australian country office covering engineering and operations supportOfficial site directory; Glassdoor, Indeed and PayScale records0.78×0.78×
Perth
Australia · AUD
Upstream and LNG talent market on the west coastOfficial site directory0.84×0.84×
Longford
Australia · AUD
Gas plant and operations in GippslandOfficial site directory0.74×0.74×
Leatherhead
United Kingdom · GBP
Regional commercial and corporate functions for EuropeOfficial site directory0.65×0.65×
Fawley
United Kingdom · GBP
Refinery and petrochemical operations, the largest UK siteOfficial site directory0.58×0.58×
London
United Kingdom · GBP
Trading, commercial and senior regional rolesOfficial site directory0.74×0.74×
Calgary
Canada · CAD
Imperial Oil head office and Canadian upstream and corporate hubMajority-owned affiliate; separate collective and pension arrangements0.75×0.75×
Edmonton
Canada · CAD
Strathcona refining and operationsAffiliate site directory0.71×0.71×
Sarnia
Canada · CAD
Refining and chemicals in OntarioAffiliate site directory0.68×0.68×
Singapore
Singapore · SGD
Asia-Pacific commercial, trading, engineering and shared services hubOfficial site directory0.58×0.58×
Jurong
Singapore · SGD
Integrated refining and petrochemical complex on Jurong IslandOfficial site directory0.57×0.57×
Antwerp
Belgium · EUR
Refining and chemicals complexOfficial site directory0.59×0.59×
Brussels / Machelen
Belgium · EUR
Regional commercial and corporate rolesOfficial site directory0.64×0.64×
Rotterdam
Netherlands · EUR
Refining, trading and commercial activity in the BotlekOfficial site directory0.62×0.62×
Breda
Netherlands · EUR
Commercial and business support functionsOfficial site directory0.60×0.60×
Georgetown
Guyana · GYD
Rapid-growth upstream country operation supporting the Stabroek blockCountry office; local-hire pay only, rotational terms excluded0.28×0.28×
Doha
Qatar · QAR
LNG joint-venture and commercial interfaceJV country office; local-hire pay only, expatriate terms excluded0.75×0.75×
Buenos Aires
Argentina · ARS
Global business support and regional functionsCapability hub0.20×0.20×
Budapest
Hungary · HUF
Global business services and commercial supportCapability hub0.30×0.30×
Prague
Czech Republic · CZK
Business support and commercial functionsCapability hub0.34×0.34×
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia · MYR
Engineering, operations and business support hubCapability hub0.28×0.28×
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea · PGK
PNG LNG country and operations supportCountry office; local-hire pay only, rotational terms excluded0.34×0.34×
Auckland
New Zealand · NZD
Smaller downstream and commercial presence included for coverageCommercial presence; no local pay disclosure located0.69×0.69×

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

BandBaseStockBonusTotal
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.

BandTargetMechanismRecent payout
CL21
Graduate / Trainee
2% of baseAnnual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published.Not publicly disclosed
CL22
Entry Professional
3% of baseAnnual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published.Not publicly disclosed
CL23
Experienced Professional
4% of baseAnnual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published.Not publicly disclosed
CL24
Senior Professional
5% of baseAnnual cash award; the broad-employee mechanism is not published.Not publicly disclosed
CL25
Lead / Advanced Professional
7% of baseAnnual cash award; the first classification where selective stock also appears.Not publicly disclosed
CL26
Principal / First-line Manager
10% of baseAnnual cash award with a team or section delivery component.Not publicly disclosed
CL27
Senior Principal / Section Head
13% of baseAnnual cash award with a section or function delivery component.Not publicly disclosed
CL28
Manager / Senior Manager
18% of baseAnnual cash award weighted towards department and business results.Not publicly disclosed
CL29
General Manager / Department Head
25% of baseAnnual cash award weighted towards business-line results.Not publicly disclosed
CL30
Enterprise Director / VP Pipeline
35% of baseExecutive-style annual cash award on enterprise and business-line results.Not publicly disclosed
VP
Vice President
50% of baseExecutive-style annual cash award; no vice-president payout is disclosed.Not publicly disclosed
SVP
Senior Vice President / Senior President
Not publicly disclosedFormulaic 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 disclosedFormulaic 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
ModeledVerifiedThe proxy describes a formulaic annual bonus tied to the year-over-year change in earnings, with individual adjustments constrained by programme ceilings, and states that the 2025 ceiling declined about 10 percent from 2024. Final awards reflected corporate performance, strategic execution, safety, operating performance and individual contribution. No target payout percentage is published for any named executive, so the disclosed figures are actual bonus value rather than a percentage of target, and no attainment ratio can honestly be computed. Executive bonus and stock decisions are taken at the Compensation Committee's November meeting; the 2025 grant date was 25 November 2025 and executive salary changes took effect on 1 January 2026.

Executive incentive targets — percent of salary

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
$4,093,000 paid on a $2,058,000 salary
199 percent of base. The bonus fell from $4.787 million in 2023 and $4.548 million in 2024, a 5 percent and then a 10 percent reduction.
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2025
$2,556,000 paid on a $1,321,000 salary
193 percent of base for Kathryn A. Mikells, who retired from the role on 1 February 2026.
Senior Vice President
$2,697,000 paid on a $1,316,000 salary
205 percent of base for Neil A. Chapman; Jack P. Williams Jr. received the same bonus on a $1,328,000 salary, or 203 percent.
Senior President, Global Operations
$2,393,000 paid on an $849,500 salary
282 percent of base for Jim M. Gibbs, the highest bonus-to-salary ratio among the named executives and a reminder that salary rank does not track bonus rank.
Every classification below Vice President
Not publicly disclosed
ExxonMobil publishes no global target-bonus table by classification and no employee payout percentage for any recent year.

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.

2003 Incentive Program
Active; approved by shareholders on 28 May 2003
Verified
Authorises stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock and other awards subject to board and committee authority. Options and appreciation rights, if used, generally cannot be granted below fair market value and cannot exceed a ten-year term. Current practice is restricted stock only: award level depends on classification level and individual performance, and ExxonMobil states that no stock options have been granted since 2001. 2025 dilution from the programme was about 0.2 percent.
Reserve: 220 million shares originally authorised; 40,903,325 available for future awards at the 2025 year-end, an 81.4 percent simple utilisation with 18.6 percent remaining
2003 Incentive Program exhibit, 2025 Form 10-K and the 2026 proxy statement
2025 restricted stock awards
Granted 25 November 2025 in the regular November committee cycle
Verified
Restricted stock units settling 50 percent after five years and 50 percent after ten years. Dividend-equivalent cash is paid during the restriction period, there are no voting rights before settlement, death is the only disclosed acceleration exception and retirement brings no automatic acceleration. Named executive grants ran from 102,800 to 225,000 shares at a $115.05 grant-date value per share.
Reserve: Granted from the 2003 Incentive Program authorisation rather than a separate reserve
2026 proxy statement and SEC Forms 4
ExxonMobil Savings Plan
Active; ESOP designation effective 8 February 2002
Verified
A United States defined-contribution plan separately designated under ERISA as a non-leveraged employee stock ownership plan. Participants may generally contribute up to 20 percent of pay, the company matches 7 percent of compensation when an employee contributes at least 6 percent, and company contributions generally vest after three years, at age 65 or on death. Participant money is vested immediately.
Reserve: $25.679 billion of net assets available for benefits, of which $7.361 billion was Exxon common stock, about 28.7 percent of the $25.652 billion of total investments
ExxonMobil Savings Plan Form 11-K for 2025, filed 10 June 2026
Non-employee director restricted stock
Active
Verified
An annual grant of 2,500 restricted shares to each non-employee director, with an initial 8,000-share grant on joining the board. Restrictions follow the director programme rather than the employee five- and ten-year schedule. The employee chairman receives no director pay.
Reserve: Granted under the same authorisation; no separate director reserve is disclosed
2026 proxy statement
Employee stock purchase plan
None identified
Verified
No discounted employee share purchase plan appears in any reviewed ExxonMobil filing or benefit page. Employees who want ongoing share accumulation do it through the Savings Plan's company stock fund and its 7 percent match rather than through a discounted purchase window.
Reserve: Not applicable
Absence confirmed across the 2026 proxy, the 2025 Form 10-K and the 2025 Form 11-K
  • 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

40.9M
Shares available for future awards
At the 2025 year-end, against 220 million originally authorised in 2003.
>30%
Professional employees participating in stock
ExxonMobil's own disclosure. It also means a substantial professional population receives no stock at all.
664,000
Shares granted to the five named executives on 25 November 2025
225,000 to the chief executive and 102,800 to 117,800 each to the other four, at a $115.05 grant-date value per share.
~0.2%
2025 dilution from the programme
Low by large-cap standards and consistent with a selective rather than universal grant model.

Vesting — common reported employee schedule

Grant to year 4
0%
+0% · annual tranche
Year 5
50%
+50% · annual tranche
Years 6 to 9
50%
+0% · annual tranche
Year 10
100%
+50% · annual tranche

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

BandAnnual value (USD)MedianShares at $160.26
CL25$2K$3K$2K~916
CL26$5K$8K$6K~3050
CL27$11K$19K$15K~71119
CL28$24K$40K$32K~150250
CL29$45K$75K$60K~281469
CL30$90K$150K$120K~562938
VP$391K$651K$521K~2,4384,062

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

ExecutiveTargetUnits / structure
Darren W. Woods
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
225,000 shares, $25,886,250 grant-date valueRestricted 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 valueSame 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 valueAn 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 valueGranted 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 valueThe 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.
VerifiedThere is no ExxonMobil employee stock purchase plan and no discounted purchase window in any reviewed source, so the closest equivalent is the Savings Plan. An eligible United States employee contributing 6 percent of pay receives a 7 percent company match, which vests after three years, at age 65 or on death, and can be directed to the company stock fund that held $7.361 billion at the 2025 year-end. That match is available to a far broader population than the selective award programme and is the only part of ExxonMobil share ownership an employee can size themselves.

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.

CEO total — Darren W. Woods
$33.00M
Stock awards are 78.4% of the reported total; salary 6% and non-equity incentive 12%
12%
78%
Salary $2.06M
Incentive $4.09M
Equity $25.89M
Base salary$2,058,000
Annual cash bonus$4,093,000
Restricted stock at grant-date value$25,886,250
All other compensation$961,378
Reported total$32,998,628

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.

CEO-to-median-employee ratio
181:1
Median employee $183,084 · The proxy applied a $33,059,068 chief executive figure to the ratio, slightly above the $32,998,628 Summary Compensation Table total, because pay-ratio methodology differs. The median was identified across a 60,157-employee measurement population at 15 October 2025, which is larger than the roughly 58,000 regular employees reported at year-end and includes populations outside the professional classification ladder..
Peer CEO comparison
ExxonMobil · Darren Woods · 2025$33.00M
2026 proxy statement
Chevron · Mike Wirth · 2025$26.83M
Chevron 2026 proxy statement
ConocoPhillips · Ryan Lance · 2025$23.45M
ConocoPhillips 2026 proxy statement
Shell · Wael Sawan · 2025$18.83M
Shell Annual Report and Accounts 2025
bp · Murray Auchincloss · 2025$7.23M
bp Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025

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.

Darren W. Woods · Chairman and Chief Executive Officer$33.00M
Salary $2.06M · Cash incentive $4.09M · Stock $25.89M · Other $961K · Equity 78.4%
Neil A. Chapman · Senior Vice President$17.75M
Salary $1.32M · Cash incentive $2.70M · Stock $13.55M · Other $182K · Equity 76.4%
Jack P. Williams Jr. · Senior Vice President$17.69M
Salary $1.33M · Cash incentive $2.70M · Stock $13.55M · Other $107K · Equity 76.6%
Jim M. Gibbs · Senior President, Global Operations$17.24M
Salary $850K · Cash incentive $2.39M · Stock $11.83M · Other $2.17M · Equity 68.6%
Kathryn A. Mikells · Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2025$17.14M
Salary $1.32M · Cash incentive $2.56M · Stock $12.13M · Other $1.14M · Equity 70.8%

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

ElementAmountNotes
Annual cash retainer$110,000Paid to each non-employee director. The employee chairman receives no separate director compensation.
Committee chair$20,000Additional annual retainer on top of the standard cash retainer.
Lead independent director$50,000Additional annual retainer, the largest single board premium disclosed.
Annual equity grant2,500 restricted sharesAbout $400,650 at the 26 August 2026 reference price, though the proxy grant-date value is the accounting measure.
Initial grant on joining8,000 restricted sharesAbout $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.

DatePersonTransactionSharesPriceValue
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

Awards are not purchasesThe five November 2025 lines are grants acquired at a zero purchase price, not open-market buying. Together they cover 664,000 shares with a combined grant-date value of about $76.95 million.
Withholding is not sellingThe 80,566 shares surrendered across the same day were withheld to cover tax at $115.95 and are not discretionary disposals. Withholding rates varied widely, from 4.5 percent for Gibbs to 17.9 percent for Woods.
No option exercisesNo exercise activity appears in the reviewed filings, consistent with the company's statement that no stock options have been granted since 2001.
Nothing settles for yearsEvery share in the November 2025 awards remains restricted until at least November 2030, so none of this activity represents realised value in the reporting period.

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

  • Savings7 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]
  • RetirementDefined-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 protectionMedical, 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 flexibilityPaid 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 mobilityStructured 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 assistanceEmployee 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 equityAdjusted 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 earningsOvertime, 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

There is no published worldwide rating scale and no rating labels, so no rating-to-increase table can exist.
Historical reporting has described rank-ordering, calibration and performance-improvement exits, but current bucket percentages are not published and old terminology should not be presented as a current bell curve.
No companywide 2025 or 2026 average salary-hike percentage, pay freeze, campus-offer revision or joining-delay announcement was found in any reviewed source.
A single worldwide employee review month, hike-effective date and off-cycle adjustment rule are not disclosed; country merit budgets are not disclosed either.
Probation and confirmation periods for graduates and lateral hires vary by employing affiliate and country, and no global rule was found.
No public dataset quantifies a lateral-hire premium at the same classification, so salary compression against internal staff is plausible but unmeasured.

Modeled promotion planning timeline

BandYears to next scopePromotion hikeStatus
CL211–2 years to CL22, typically 8 to 15 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL222–3 years to CL23, typically 8 to 15 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL232–4 years to CL24, typically 10 to 18 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL243–5 years to CL25, typically 10 to 20 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL253–5 years to CL26, typically 12 to 22 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL263–6 years to CL27, typically 12 to 25 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL274–7 years to CL28, typically 15 to 25 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL284–8 years to CL29, typically 15 to 30 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL295–10 years to CL30, typically 20 to 35 percentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
CL30Discretionary; role and market dependentNot disclosedModeled planning interval
VPBoard or committee appointmentNot disclosedModeled 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.

Detailed records reconstructed
28
Across all identified ExxonMobil legal entities; the median offered base is $181,885.
25th to 75th percentile
$153,594 – $212,177
The interquartile band across the same 28 records, which is wide for a sample this small.
FY2025 filings, Technology and Engineering
18
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company at a $174,163 average offered base, with 17 approvals and no denials in the available snapshot.
FY2026 filings to date
29
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company partial-year filings, with 3 approvals and no denials in the available snapshot.

Dataset summary

DatasetResultInterpretation
H1BGrader entity profile18 FY2025 and 29 partial FY2026 filings for ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyThe most consistent single-entity series, and the entity that files most of the technical roles.
H1BData corporate records5 FY2025 filings for Exxon Mobil Corporation averaging $426,148A 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 Services5 FY2025 filings for ExxonMobil Global Services Company averaging $396,764Another small skewed sample. Entity aliases matter: Upstream Integrated Solutions and other affiliates file under separate employer names again.
MyVisaJobs industry reportMining, quarrying and oil-and-gas extraction FY2025 sponsor contextUsed for sector framing rather than for an ExxonMobil-specific count.

City-level H-1B wage history

CityP25MedianP75Records
Spring, Texas
Combined legal-entity sample at the headquarters campus; base salary only.
$144K$178,810$229K24
Baytown, Texas
Very small sample from the integrated refining and chemical complex.
$187K$187,760$189K2
Annandale, New Jersey
A single filing at the Clinton and Annandale research campus.
$169K$168,700$169K1
Irving, Texas
A single technology filing at the legacy Dallas and Irving footprint.
$187K$186,580$187K1
All detailed records
The combined reconstructed sample across every identified entity and worksite.
$154K$181,885$212K28

All-years aggregates. P25/P75 are rounded reconstruction values marked modeled; medians and record counts are the stronger fields.

Selected title / worksite records

TitleWorksiteProffered wageNotes
Senior petroleum and engineering rolesSpring, Texas$324,680 – $543,687The 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 rolesSpring, Texas$135,000 – $231,850Spans roughly CL23 through CL27 on the anchor ladder, and is the band that best matches the modelled professional range.
EngineerBaytown, Texas$185,880 – $189,640Industrial-site engineering filings sit close to the Spring median despite the 0.98 city factor used in the model.
Experimental physicist or specialistAnnandale, New Jersey$168,700A research-campus filing, the only New Jersey record in the sample.
SharePoint and technology roleIrving, Texas$186,580The 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

01Ownership is selective, not universal

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.

02Grant-date value and realisable value are decades apart

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.

03Ten years of restriction is the retention engine

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.

04Options are functionally absent

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.

05The Savings Plan ESOP is a retirement designation, not a grant

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.

06A defined-benefit pension is still running

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.

07Salary rank does not predict bonus rank

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.

08Cash bonuses have fallen two years running

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.

09Offshore compression is level-dependent and large

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.

10Rotational and expatriate markets are a different pay model

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.

11Industrial-site earnings break the band model

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.

12Affiliate is not parent

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.

13Pioneer cohorts may carry different histories

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.

14Automation is shifting the skill mix in the Permian

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

LabelMeaningExamples and permitted use
VerifiedAn 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.
ReportedA 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.
ModeledThe 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 disclosedNo 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

A complete global CL21 to CL30 salary table with minimum, midpoint and maximum by classification and city
Any official title-to-classification catalogue, or any mapping of hourly, craft and operations roles to a classification
The target-bonus percentage for any classification, including for the named executive officers
The minimum classification eligible for a stock award, typical grant sizes by classification and any country split
A worldwide appraisal matrix, rating labels, calibration percentages or forced-distribution buckets
Global or country attrition rates, in any period
City-level employee headcount anywhere in the world
Merit budgets, hike percentages, review months and effective dates outside the executive population
Country allowance schedules, including expatriate housing, rotation, hardship and tax-equalisation terms
A legacy-Exxon, legacy-Mobil or Pioneer-to-classification conversion table

Known gaps and diligence before relying on a cell

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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

95.427628
INR
1.39695
AUD
0.733061
GBP
1.383964
CAD
1.269615
SGD
0.856908
EUR
208.954978
GYD
3.64
QAR
1511.5326
ARS
309.788369
HUF
20.641801
CZK
4.046752
MYR
4.446559
PGK
1.67443
NZD

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

S1Exxon Mobil Corporation 2026 Definitive Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026-04-29. Executive compensation, pay ratio, director compensation, stock award design, grant activity and programme governance.
S2Exxon Mobil Corporation 2025 Form 10-K · SEC · 2026-02-18. Employees, revenue, financials and the incentive-programme share authorisation.
S3ExxonMobil Savings Plan Form 11-K for 2025 · SEC · 2026-06-10. Savings plan assets, ESOP status, contributions, company stock holdings and vesting.
S4Exxon Mobil Corporation 2003 Incentive Program · SEC exhibit · 2018 amendment of the 2003 plan. Eligible employees, award types, grant-price constraints and the original authorisation.
S5Investing 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.
S6Management Committee · ExxonMobil · 2026-08-27. Current management committee roles and the CFO transition.
S7Corporate and affiliate officers · ExxonMobil · 2026-08-27. Current officer titles and affiliate structure, and confirmation that no standing EVP tier exists.
S82026 first-quarter Form 10-Q · SEC · 2026-05-01. Current legal and financial context.
S9Redomiciling the company from New Jersey to Texas · ExxonMobil · 2026-03-10. Redomiciliation proposal and rationale.
S102026 annual shareholder meeting · ExxonMobil · 2026-05-27. Shareholder approval and governance changes.
S11ExxonMobil salaries · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed classification salary submissions across functions.
S12ExxonMobil software engineer salaries · Levels.fyi · 2026-08-27. Observed United States CL22 to CL27 compensation, the backbone of the Spring anchor.
S13ExxonMobil 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.
S14ExxonMobil 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.
S15ExxonMobil salaries, United States · Glassdoor · 2026-08-27. Broad United States title ranges and the process-operator total-pay range.
S16ExxonMobil salaries, India · Glassdoor India · 2026-08-27. Broad India title ranges including the graduate engineering trainee starting range.
S17ExxonMobil salaries, Australia · Glassdoor Australia · 2026-08-27. Australian engineer and manager ranges.
S18ExxonMobil engineer salaries, Melbourne · Glassdoor Australia · 2026-08-27. Melbourne engineer submissions averaging about A$155,000 base.
S19ExxonMobil engineer pay, Melbourne · Indeed Australia · 2026-08-27. Small-sample Melbourne estimate of A$128,182 across three postings.
S20ExxonMobil salaries, Australia · PayScale · 2026-08-27. Australian average base of A$140,723 and average bonus of A$9,000.
S21ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company H-1B data · H1BGrader · 2026-08-27. Labour condition application and petition records by legal entity.
S22Exxon Mobil Corporation H-1B salary records · H1BData.info · 2026-08-27. Corporate legal-entity wage records by worksite.
S23Mining, quarrying and oil-and-gas H-1B sponsor report · MyVisaJobs · 2026-08-27. FY2025 sector filing counts and average offered salary for context.
S24Exxon Mobil to cut 2,000 jobs globally · Reuters · 2025-09-30. Global restructuring scale and the Imperial Oil share of it.
S25Exxon cuts nearly 400 Texas jobs after the Pioneer deal · Reuters · 2024-11-14. Pioneer integration reductions and WARN timing.
S26Exxon turns to automated drilling in the Permian · Reuters · 2026-08-24. Automation programme and the skill-mix shift in the Permian.
S27USD reference exchange rates · ExchangeRate-API · 2026-08-26. The single FX snapshot behind every local-currency figure on this page.
S28Chevron 2026 Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026. Peer chief executive compensation.
S29ConocoPhillips 2026 Proxy Statement · SEC · 2026. Peer chief executive compensation.
S30Shell Annual Report and Accounts 2025 · Shell · 2026. Peer chief executive single-figure remuneration of £13.8 million.
S31bp Annual Report and Form 20-F 2025 · bp · 2026. Peer chief executive single-figure remuneration of £5.3 million.
S32Provident Fund information for employees · Employees' Provident Fund Organisation, India · 2026-08-27. India statutory provident fund rates and wage ceiling.
S33Super guarantee · Australian Taxation Office · 2026-08-27. The 12 percent superannuation guarantee from 1 July 2025.
S34Annual leave · Fair Work Ombudsman · 2026-08-27. Australian statutory annual leave including the shiftworker entitlement.
S35Workplace pension contributions · GOV.UK · 2026-08-27. United Kingdom auto-enrolment minimum contributions.
S36CPF 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.

~63,000
2021 employees
The high point of the five-year series and the year the pay ratio was lowest at 125:1.
~62,000
2022 employees
Down about 1,000 with the pay ratio rising to 210:1 on a lower $171,582 median.
~62,000
2023 employees
Flat year on year; median employee pay recovered to $185,376 and the ratio was 199:1.
~61,000
2024 employees
Down about 1,000 as Pioneer integration reductions began; median pay of $190,266 and a 232:1 ratio, the highest in the series.
~58,000
2025 employees
Down about 3,000, the largest single-year fall, alongside a $183,084 median and a 181:1 ratio.

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.

24 Aug 2026
Two automated rigs running in the Permian with half the fleet targeted by 2028

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.

Reuters
1 Jul 2026
Legal domicile moves from New Jersey to Texas

The redomiciliation followed shareholder approval in May 2026. No compensation plan reset, band restructure or benefit change was disclosed alongside it.

ExxonMobil corporate news
10 Jun 2026
Savings Plan Form 11-K reports $7.361 billion of company stock

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.

Form 11-K
27 May 2026
Annual shareholder meeting approves the Texas move

Governance changes were approved without any change to the incentive programme authorisation or to the executive pay design.

ExxonMobil corporate news
29 Apr 2026
2026 proxy discloses $32,998,628 of 2025 chief executive compensation

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.

Definitive Proxy Statement
9 Apr 2026
Investing in People confirms stock participation above 30 percent

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.

ExxonMobil
18 Feb 2026
2025 Form 10-K reports about 58,000 regular employees

Sales and other operating revenue of $323.904 billion, and 40,903,325 shares still available for future awards under the 2003 Incentive Program.

Form 10-K
1 Feb 2026
Neil Hansen becomes Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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.

ExxonMobil management committee
25 Nov 2025
November committee cycle grants 664,000 restricted shares to five executives

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.

2026 proxy statement and SEC Forms 4
30 Sep 2025
About 2,000 roles targeted in a global restructuring

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.

Reuters
14 Nov 2024
Nearly 400 Texas positions scheduled for separation after the Pioneer deal

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.

Reuters
3 May 2024
Pioneer Natural Resources acquisition closes

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.

2025 Form 10-K
Last updated 2026-08-27