Google CEO Sundar Pichai received total compensation worth $100.5 million last year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday, handing him the highest pay disclosed by the search giant’s parent company, Alphabet.
The vast majority of his pay was in stock awards. Pichai’s stock compensation was valued at $99.8 million. He received a salary of $652,500. The filing didn’t provide details on his pay in past years.
Google restructured itself last year under an umbrella company called Alphabet, with Pichai named CEO of the largest unit, the one housing the company’s biggest businesses like search, Android and YouTube. Pichai, a trusted lieutenant to founder and Alphabet CEO Larry Page, was the company’s product czar, handling many of its most meaningful businesses like search, maps and Android...
