Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West received compensation totaling $10.4 million in 2023, a breakthrough year for the ride-hailing company, during which it reported its first annual operating profit ever and the stock appreciated more than 70%. West, 58, who’s been the company’s legal chief since November 2017, received virtually the same amount a year earlier, $10.6 million. In 2021, he’d received $7.4 million. The San Francisco-based company disclosed pay for top brass in a proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. West was the fourth-highest paid executive of the six listed. Leading the way was CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who received $24.2 million, flat from a year earlier. In the proxy, Uber’s compensation committee listed nine bullet points of achievements for West, including a landmark deal with New York Attorney General Letitia James announced in November that put to rest a three-year-old probe into allegations it misappropriated drivers’ wages. Under the pact, Uber agreed to pay $290 million to drivers and begin providing sick days and other benefits. The compensation committee also noted West’s bridge-building efforts, including that he “engaged globally with more than 100 regulators, attorney generals, policymakers, labor unions, and other government stakeholders to educate them on our business, encourage collaboration, build public-private partnerships and mitigate risks.”

Those sorts of efforts have been central to Uber’s strategy since the company installed West and other new executives following the June 2017 departure of Travis Kalanick, who was widely criticized for fostering a problematic workplace culture and failing to address safety concerns. In recognition of West’s efforts to transform the culture and foster transparency and openness, Corporate Counsel last fall named West its 2023 General Counsel of the Year. Law.com reported in February that the company had recently reached the milestone of achieving a valuation of $120 billion for 90 consecutive days—unlocking a huge trove of stock options the company had granted West shortly after his hiring. Had the company failed to meet that threshold before the options expired in 2028, West never would have been eligible to exercise them. Options give holders the right to buy shares in the future at a preset price—$33.65 in West’s case. Uber’s stock price is now more than double that—about $76—giving him a paper profit on his option grant of $13 million.