Google CEO Sundar Pichai doubled his pay last year to $200 million
Getty Images Google CEO Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai cashed in big during his first full calendar year at the helm of the Internet giant, nearly doubling his total compensation to $200 million in 2016. Pichai received a salary of $650,000 last year, slightly less than the $652,500 he earned in 2015. But the long-time Google employee, who was named CEO during the company's re-organization in August 2015, received a stock award of $198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock award of $99.8 million. That brought his total compensation last year to $199.7 million, almost twice the $100.6 million he earned a year earlier. Amazon and Alphabet racing to $1,000/share 11 Hours Ago | 02:33 Pichai's haul came even as his two bosses, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, once again drew salaries of only $1 for their roles as CEO and President, respectively, of parent company Alphabet. But Page and Brin are each worth mor...
Comments
Post a Comment