Google CEO Sundar Pichai Earns $226 Million in 2022 as List of Highest Paid CEOs Are Unveiled
- Google Chief Executive Officer Sunday Pichai reportedly earned $218 in 2022
- Pichai's earnings put him among the world's most-paid CEOs, led by Tesla CEO, Elon Musk
- Shareholders of big companies in the US have raised concerns about fat salaries received by CEOs
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Google's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Sunday Pichai, received more than $218 million as his base annual salary for 2022, according to filings published on Friday, April 21, 2023. His net compensation of $2 million has stayed the same since 2020.
Google's parent company, Alphabet, also spent about $6 million on Pichai's security.
Google CEO joins the list
The filing said other top executives at the company all made about $37 million. The company awards them shares annually.
Business Insider reports that the CEO's compensation makes him one of the best-paid in the world as tech companies embarked on massive layoffs, including Amazon, Meta, and Twitter.
Alphabet laid off about 12,000 staff in January, and the CEO said he took full responsibility for the decisions.
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Tim Cook, Apple CEO, asked for a pay cut for 2023 after a massive package in the previous years caused serious controversy among shareholders. He has set his earnings at $49 million, about 40% less than last year.
Shareholders protest CEOs fat pay
An investor advocacy group says most of the US's most prominent companies overpaid their CEOs.
Time Magazine said that a report listed 100 overpaid bosses who got high compensation last year
The report said Warner Bros. Discovery's David Zaslav received $246 million in 2022 and voted against his pay package due to the company's stock drop.
The second overpaid CEO in 2022 was Estee Lauder's Fabrizio Freda, who made $66 million last year while the firm's stock dropped 33%.
Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, emerged as the best-paid CEO last year after selling the company's shares to help him fund his purchase of Twitter.
List of Highest-Paid CEOs in the World
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, $23.5 Billion
- Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, $770.5 Million
- Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, $561 Million
- Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, $453.5 Million
- Leonard Schleifer, CEO of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, $452.9 Million
- Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, $439.4 Million
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, $309.4 million
- Robert A. Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard, $296.7 Million
- Hock E. Tan, CEO of Broadcom $288 Million
- Safra A. Catz, CEO of Oracle $239.5 Million
Dangote’s purchercos leads list of highest paid CEOs in Nigeria as GTB, Airtel executives drop out
Legit.ng reported that Dangote Cement's Chief Executive Officer Micheal Purchercos has emerged as Nigeria’s highest-earning CEO in 2021 among 157 companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange.
Purchercos, who was employed in 2020, was paid a whopping N531 million in 2021 for his service to Dangote Cement company.
The earnings of Purchercos and other CEOs was captured in Proshare CEO renumeration report titled: CEOs in a Post Covid Era - what matters most.
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