Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai received $226 million in compensation for 2022 including over $200 million in stock awards.
Sundar Pichai, the CEO of both Alphabet and Google, received $226 million in compensation for 2022 including $218 million in stock awards according to . His annual salary for last year was $2 million. As for the stock awards, in December the company reported a new triannual stock grant to Pichai valued at $210 million based on both performance and time. For 2021, the executive’s triannual stock award wasn’t part of his compensation and he received $6.3 million in total pay for that year.
The 2022 stock award includes two tiers of performance stock units with a target value of $63 million each. Another $84 million in Alphabet restrictive stock units is part of the grant. The filing in December said that 60% of Pichai’s stock award would be made up of the company’s performance stock units which is a higher percentage than seen in previous years.
