Nintendo’s latest annual report presents its top managers’ fees and additional compensation as of 2020.
Nintendo Japan has released the official document presented to its group of investors for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. The so-called Annual Report 2020 makes a financial balance of the company for the last twelve months, including the internal structure of its main managers, economic aspects and future plan. It has also transcended the gross salary of some of the members of the executive leadership.
Nintendo’s highest-earning annual employee is currently its president, Shuntaro Furukawa. After taking over from Tatsumi Kimishima in 2018 and with almost total approval within the company (97%), the relatively young Furukawa earns a total of 2.4 million dollars, an equivalency with respect to yen where a base salary of 730,000 is contemplated. dollars and a bonus that includes different objectives that have not been disclosed in the document, to give total fees of $ 1.67 million.
The salaries of Shigeru Miyamoto, director and advisor at the table as Creative Advisor, also appear, receive a total of $ 1.8 million in base $ 670,000 over $ 1.13 million in objectives. Finally, another veteran of the company such as Shinya Takahashi, current general manager of the Division of Entertainment Planning and Development, earns $ 1.24 million. Takahashi’s salary is divided on a basis of $ 110,000, the lowest of the ciadas, but with a bonus identical to that of his colleague Miyamoto, $ 1.24 million.
Shuntaru Furukawa (left), Shigeru Miyamoto (center) and Shinya Takahashi (right) | Nintendo
Asa Shinkawa, new member of the board of directors; Only Woman
It should be noted that, of those nine managers, Nintendo itself has highlighted the percentage of female persons at the table. According to the document, there are eight directors and one director, which leads to an 11.11% percentage of female presence in the group of top managers of Nintendo, Asa Shinkawa. Born in 1965, Shinkawa has experience in works councils, technology and in the field of economic matters. In 2020, she joined Nintendo as associate director in supervisory duties for the works council.
In the absence of knowing how the Nintendo launch games catalog is finalized by the end of 2020, where there is not a single first party video game, the company ensures that they have more unannounced titles for this same course and that COVID-19 has not disrupted their release plan; nor has it delayed works planned for this course. This Monday there was a Nintendo Direct Mini focused on launches from its partners.
