L'Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus’ salary for 2025 has been revealed in the French beauty giant’s annual report for 2025.
Hieronimus, who has served as CEO of the Lancôme-owner since May 2021, received a total remuneration of €11.3m – a 13.34% increase compared with 2024 (€9.9m).
This is composed of a fixed remuneration, variable remuneration and a performance share grant.
In 2025, Hieronimus received a fixed remuneration of €2.3m, and an annual variable remuneration of €2.7m, with the actual amount paid for the latter being reported at €2.04m.
Combined, Hieronimus’ total allocated amounts were €5.06m, with €4.3m actually being paid.
On top of the fixed and variable remuneration, Hieronimus is also entitled to the value of performance shares granted during the financial year.
For 2025, the CEO was allocated more than €6.9m from his shares in the company.
Combined, his total remuneration and shares were reported at more than €12m – up from €9.7m in 2024 – but actual pay amounted to €11.3m.
L'Oréal’s annual report has been published amid a period of rapid growth and expansion for the cosmetics giant, which is being helmed by Hieronimus.
This includes Kering announcing its intent to sell its beauty division to L’Oréal in October 2025.
The deal is still pitched to be completed in the first half of 2026 and will see L’Oréal acquire fragrance and beauty licences such as House of Creed.
L’Oréal also acquired professional hair care brand Color Wow for an undisclosed sum in July 2025.
This news came hot on the heels of L’Oréal snapping up a majority stake in premium skin care brand Medik8 last year to strengthen its Luxe Division.
Elsewhere, L'Oréal has also been doubling down on its investments in longevity science, with owned brands including Lancôme and Vichy launching products focused on root cause intervention instead of symptom correction.
Last year, Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) revealed how much it paid its leadership team last year, including newly installed President and CEO Stéphane de La Faverie.
As the top executive at ELC, de La Faverie took home an annual base salary of US$1.5m after being promoted to the position from January this year.
The compensation of ELC’s C-suite executives was published in annual financial filings with the SEC covering the 2025 fiscal year to 30 June.
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