March 5 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Canada set CEO Dave McKay's 2025 total compensation at C$22.09 million ($16.12 million), 30% above his compensation target for the year, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday.

* RBC, Canada's biggest bank by market capitalisation, notedMcKay's role in delivering strong results in the backdrop ofmajor shifts in global trade and geopolitics. * The bank generated earnings of C$20.4 billion in 2025, up25% from the previous year. * McKay was handed a C$20.5 million salary in 2024,excluding a one-time C$4 million stock award linked tointegration of the HSBC Canada acquisition. * McKay's 2025 salary was 8% higher than 2024.  * McKay, 62, has been at the helm of RBC since 2014 and isone of the longest tenured CEOs among the bank's Canadian andU.S. peers. * McKay's 2026 compensation target remains unchanged at C$17million.

($1 = 1.3700 Canadian dollars)

(Reporting by Arasu Kannagi Basil in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)