Six of SoftBanks' top executives made $83 million combined (9.1 billion yen) in compensation last year, while Son's salary rose to about $2.1 million (229 million yen), according to Bloomberg.
"The range of executive salaries in Japan has gone up, but compensation in the billions of yen is still unheard of beyond a handful of global companies," Noriko Watanabe, a partner at Heidrick & Struggles, an executive search company, told Bloomberg.
But Son may not be taking home any of his salary. In 2011, he pledged to donate $119 million to support victims of the 9.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan that March — as well as "the whole of his remuneration" as head of SoftBank until his retirement.