Chris Drumgooles pay increased from $3.5 million in 2023 to $6.7 million in 2025.
For what? And the guy has the cheek to say money is tight for rises every year.
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How you can get a $3.1 million pay rise is amazing if he keeps on saying we don't have money for raises.
Something isnt correct.
@rk
What use is that if he does nothing, and he obviously hasn’t over the last three years, to give something back to the staff he is supposedly ‘staff friendly’ towards?
Talk is cheap (or not in his case) but actions speak louder than words
What if they replaced him with AI. What does the Drumbeat actually do? He came around Salvo and Mary F all on inflated salaries. They have been replaced just Drum left.
He has installed layers of weak men around him like Danny Grey who is well over his depth, and others who have just invented more layers. What is the outcome, what is the measure of growth?
There is an easy $15million saving to be had here across drum and friends, the raises could easily be paid.
really hard working guy
With that logic, thousands of employees should be on six figure salaries too, and yet here we are. The pay rise better be worth it because it's gonna alienate the workforce even further and look for shortcuts.
@rk+ when your on $6.7 you would even buy people flowers and throw parties.
Easy money then being able to say there is none for you guys is just double faced.
Nothing friendly, nice, or respects about that.
The execs are all in it together getting every cent they can from the employees pay.
He is one of the most staff friendly and really hard working guy in the whole executive team. Respects.
@ja
Building up a cash-rich company that will be ripe for takeover?
What if they have kept the Drum on his origunal $3.5 million for sending out his few emails and used the other $3 million to get 3 people who are much better than the Drum.
Even then It would have money better spent than on on Drummer.
What I don't get is that next week they will publish figures that say they have $2bn in the bank.
No dividends, no raises, no acquisitions...
What on earth are they doing sitting on that kind of cash?
That truly shows how pathetic the board is. Literally no imagination at all.
@gw+1kfm47w7z if they allocate the $1000 rise to everybody they still have $480 million left plus the $2 billion in the bank.
They do budget for raises but they just don't want to give them out.
Its pathetic set of management who come up with excuses and lies every year.
It's worth mentioning that dxc has a "free cash flow" of about $600m a year.
If you take that and allocate just $1000 to each person, that's $120m.
I don't know about the rest of you but $1000 extra doesn't make up for inflation much to me.
Even if you doubled that it's still a drop in the ocean.
So while 600m sounds a lot, it doesn't go far divided 120,000 ways.
They could of course do two things
1) not say it's zero raise but consistently offer $1000 as a bonus.
2) agree we're all in this together and construct executive bonus payouts the same way as they treat us. No money, no bonus.
Egality would go a long way to dealing with dissatisfaction.
Obviously better still would be them actually doing their job and turning the company around. Maybe a few less millions might focus their minds.
Please be patient with him. He is a hard working honest person. He is doing his best to get all you guys a big increase as well.
The Exec barstewards are getting rises every year and telling everyone else there's nothing.
How can you run a company like that and expect to win new contracts. They purposely are happy play their little game knowingly.
The shareholders and employees are been taken for a ride.
@bd raul only got a small amount the first FY because he only started part way through the year and slavino got the rest...
Oh to be a DXC exec.
Deliver another year of decline, totally demoralize your workforce, loose longheld contracts, fail on synergies (how many time recording systems are there ?)
Yet still rewarded with massive payrise whilst Wall St. ignore the signs
https://www.panabee.com/news/dxc-ceo-compensation-soars-73-to-16-7-million-amid-strategic-shifts
And worth every penny.
A great man with a proven track record in delivering excellence for our customers and colleagues.
Frankly I'm surprised the payrise is so little.
We could share Rauls $7M increase and all get $59 a year more!
ChatGPT suggests DXC's salary bill is a conservative $7.7B, which means we're all on an average of $64k. Not too shabby. If only we all were!
I just checked Raul, 2024: 9,7 mln, 2025: 16,7 mln. What the... I mean, I don't care how much they earn in general, but if they keep telling there is no money on salary raise, that gives very bad example and is spitting in the face. Let's print it and put on the wall in the offices... it is public information...
What the actual f**k😡
He was Chief operating officer - sc--wed up all the internal dept - IT etc. Moved on to delivery to sc--w that up as well.
The guy needs a big cut he actually doesn't do much.
Rob Del bene is on a lot less.