Google CEO Sundar Pichai's compensation reached $226M in 2022
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Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai received $226M in total compensation in 2022, including a $218M equity award via a triennial stock grant. Annual salary was $2M, with the CEO's compensation package also including almost $6M for personal security.
Difficult time? The news comes as Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL) initiates cost restructuring measures, including layoffs of 12,000 workers, or 6% of workforce. Pichai even said in January that top executives would get lower bonuses as part of cost-cutting measures.
In December, the company granted a new triannual equity award to Pichai with a value of $210M. In 2019, the last year his compensation included a triannual stock grant, his compensation was valued at $281M.
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