Alphabet CEO Pichai will receive more than $200 million in 2022 amid cost cuts
Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee salary, the company said in a securities filing on Friday.
Pichai’s compensation included about $218 million in stock awards, according to the filing.
The pay differences come at a time when Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has cut jobs worldwide. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced in January that it plans to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide in January, or 6 percent of its global workforce. .
Earlier this month, hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices following a dispute over layoffs.
In March, Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s Zurich offices after more than 200 workers were laid off.
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