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Updated April 2026 · SEC DEF 14A data

CFO - Arista Networks

CFO at Arista Networks · Networking

CFO - Arista Networks holds the role of CFO at Arista Networks. Total reported compensation: $7.2M. Named Executive Officer (NEO) compensation at U.S. public companies is disclosed through the SEC proxy statement filing — typically the CEO, CFO, and three highest-paid additional officers.

Compensation at this scale is typical of senior executives at mid-cap public companies, or non-CEO senior officers at larger firms. Equity awards tend to dominate cash compensation in the disclosure. The CEOPay executive page surfaces the per-year compensation history (where multi-year disclosure exists), the breakdown by award type, and the per-company context for the role. Cross-executive comparisons within a single company are most useful for understanding internal pay structure.

CFO - Arista Networks, CFO at Arista Networks, earned $7.2M in reported total compensation in fiscal year 2024. Pay was disclosed in the company's SEC DEF 14A proxy statement and is broken into salary, stock awards, option awards, non-equity incentive, pension change, and other compensation under the Summary Compensation Table required by Regulation S-K Item 402.

Total Compensation

$7.2M

Fiscal year 2024

Compensation Breakdown

Salary$1.1M
Stock Awards$3.6M
Options$863K
Non-Equity Incentive$1.1M
Other$575K

CFO - Arista Networks Cumulative Compensation: $7.2M in SEC-Disclosed Pay

Cumulative Disclosed Pay
$7.2M
1 fiscal years on file
Latest Year
$7.2M
FY 2024
Annual Avg.
$7.2M
across history

CFO - Arista Networks has earned $7.2M in cumulative total compensation across the 1 fiscal year of disclosure on file (2024) as CFO at Arista Networks. That figure — the sum of every Summary Compensation Table entry the company has filed under SEC Regulation S-K Item 402 — is a defensible floor for an estimated net worth conversation: it is in the seven-to-eight-figure range based on disclosed pay alone; actual net worth depends materially on what fraction of vested equity CFO - Arista Networks chose to hold versus sell, plus the share-price trajectory of Arista Networks over the same window. CFO - Arista Networks's actual net worth is not directly disclosed in SEC filings; it would require reconciling this cumulative pay with current beneficial ownership, prior open-market stock sales (reported on Form 4), exercised options, taxes paid, and personal investments outside the company.

What CFO - Arista Networks's Pay Tells Us

CFO - Arista Networks earns $7.2M as CFO at Arista Networks. Compensation in this range reflects a structured mix of base salary, annual cash incentives, and time-vested or performance-vested equity, with the equity portion typically vesting over three to four years on the standard SEC-disclosed schedule.

Balanced equity-and-cash package: stock and option awards account for roughly 62% of total compensation, with base salary at 15% and the remainder in annual cash incentive, pension change, and other compensation. This mix is common in mid-cap public companies and in industries with more stable revenue trajectories.

Arista Networks's CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio is 138:1 — broadly typical of large U.S. enterprise companies under the SEC Item 402(u) disclosure framework. Shareholders approved the most recent say-on-pay vote with 94.1% support — within the typical S&P 500 range.

Compensation History

YearSalaryBonusStock AwardsOptionsNon-EquityOtherTotal
2024$1.1M-$3.6M$863K$1.1M$575K$7.2M

Compensation history covers a single fiscal year (2024) of disclosed total compensation. Multi-year tenure history will appear here as additional DEF 14A filings reach the SEC EDGAR system.

How These Numbers Are Reported

Every figure on this page comes from the SEC DEF 14A proxy statement that Arista Networks filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its most recent annual shareholder meeting. The proxy is freely available on the SEC's EDGAR system. Inside it, the Summary Compensation Table reports salary, bonus, stock awards, option awards, non-equity incentive plan compensation, change in pension and nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, all other compensation, and total — for the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and the three other most highly compensated executive officers (the "named executive officers" or NEOs).

Stock awards and option awards are reported at grant-date fair value under FASB ASC 718, which is an accounting estimate at the time of grant rather than realized pay. Realized pay — what the executive actually banked — appears in the separate "Option Exercises and Stock Vested" table inside the same DEF 14A. Both views matter: the grant-date number is what the board approved, the realized number is what actually flowed to the executive in a given year. Read the full methodology for inputs, weights, and how each line item is sourced.

Authoritative governance context: Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis publish the proxy-advisor frameworks most institutional shareholders use to evaluate pay alignment, and our Pay-for-Performance Grade follows the same four-factor approach.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does CFO - Arista Networks earn?

CFO - Arista Networks earned $7.2M in total compensation as CFO at Arista Networks in fiscal year 2024, as disclosed in the company's most recent SEC DEF 14A proxy statement. CFO - Arista Networks earns $7.2M as CFO at Arista Networks. Compensation in this range reflects a structured mix of base salary, annual cash incentives, and time-vested or performance-vested equity, with the equity portion typically vesting over three to four years on the standard SEC-disclosed schedule.

What is CFO - Arista Networks's pay package made of?

CFO - Arista Networks's reported total of $7.2M breaks into base salary of $1.1M, stock awards of $3.6M, option awards of $863K, plus non-equity incentive, pension change, and other compensation. Balanced equity-and-cash package: stock and option awards account for roughly 62% of total compensation, with base salary at 15% and the remainder in annual cash incentive, pension change, and other compensation. This mix is common in mid-cap public companies and in industries with more stable revenue trajectories.

What is CFO - Arista Networks's net worth?

CFO - Arista Networks has earned $7.2M in cumulative total compensation across the 1 fiscal year of disclosure on file (2024) as CFO at Arista Networks. That figure — the sum of every Summary Compensation Table entry the company has filed under SEC Regulation S-K Item 402 — is a defensible floor for an estimated net worth conversation: it is in the seven-to-eight-figure range based on disclosed pay alone; actual net worth depends materially on what fraction of vested equity CFO - Arista Networks chose to hold versus sell, plus the share-price trajectory of Arista Networks over the same window. CFO - Arista Networks's actual net worth is not directly disclosed in SEC filings; it would require reconciling this cumulative pay with current beneficial ownership, prior open-market stock sales (reported on Form 4), exercised options, taxes paid, and personal investments outside the company.

Where does this compensation data come from?

Every figure on this page is sourced from the SEC DEF 14A proxy statement that Arista Networks filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of its most recent annual shareholder meeting. The Summary Compensation Table inside the filing is the authoritative document, available on the SEC EDGAR system at https://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml. Equity values follow FASB ASC 718 grant-date fair-value accounting; pension changes reflect the year-over-year actuarial revision required by Regulation S-K Item 402.

How has CFO - Arista Networks's pay changed over time?

Compensation history covers a single fiscal year (2024) of disclosed total compensation. Multi-year tenure history will appear here as additional DEF 14A filings reach the SEC EDGAR system.

What is Arista Networks's pay-for-performance picture?

Arista Networks's CEO-to-median-worker pay ratio is 138:1 — broadly typical of large U.S. enterprise companies under the SEC Item 402(u) disclosure framework. Shareholders approved the most recent say-on-pay vote with 94.1% support — within the typical S&P 500 range. Arista Networks earns a Pay-for-Performance Grade of C (60/100) on the four-factor framework documented on the methodology page.

Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, DEF 14A proxy filings via EDGAR. Public domain.

Last updated 2026-04-06 · 1 fiscal years of compensation history on file.