- Microsoft's chief marketing officer told employees to bump the stock price for raises, Fortune reported.
- Earlier this month, Microsoft told salaried employees they wouldn't receive raises.
Microsoft employees $4. Its chief marketing officer says there's a way to change that — by working to push the company's stock higher.
"The most important lever for almost all our employees' compensation upside is the stock price," CMO Chris Capossela $4. "So great quarterly results contribute to making the stock attractive which in turn drives everyone's total compensation up."
Already so far this year, Microsoft's stock is up nearly 33%, far outpacing the broader stock market, which is up only around 10% over the same time.
Earlier this month, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella $4 saying the company was not raising salaries for full-time employees this year, and that it would not "overfund" bonuses and stock awards as it had done in the previous year.
The $4 economic conditions as a reason for no raises, and said it was making compensation "commensurate with the overall market."
Meanwhile, in January, Nadella sent employees an email saying the company was planning to $4 through the end of the third quarter of this year.
Microsoft did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Earlier this year, Microsoft made a $4 in AI startup OpenAI that was reported to be worth $10 billion, and $4 through the partnership.