In 2024, a Google worker with a medium level achieved 331,894 US New submission Submitted by the parent company of Google, Alphabet, to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
The number lately has been compensated for with the remuneration for other tech giants. At Meta, for instance, the common payment for workers in 2023 was 379,000 USD a 12 months.
The submission also showed that Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai received annual compensation of USD 10,725,043 last 12 months, about 32 -more than the medium -sized worker. Pichai received a rise of just about 2 million US dollars from the $ 8,802,824, which he achieved in 2023.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Photo by Klaudia Radecka/Nurphoto about Getty Images
Most of Pichai’s compensation got here from the “All other compensation” category, along with its basic salary of $ 2,015,385 and $ 405,630 for stock prices.
The remaining 8,304,028 US dollars contained Pichai’s personal security costs, which rose by 22% in 2023 in comparison with $ 6,775,631 in 2024 in 2023. The category also included its pension plan and using company aircraft or cars.
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“Due to the important public profile of Sundar, Alphabet offers him security protection,” says Alphabets Proxy declaration from Alphabet. “In 2024, Sundar’s security agreements included the security and advisory fees for residential and advisory fees, security surveillance services, car and driver services and personal security during all trips.”
Alphabet described Pichai’s personal security costs “appropriate, appropriate, necessary and in the best interest of Alphabet and its shareholders”.
Other technical CEOs even have seven or eighteen safety costs. For example, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, $ 27.2 million total compensation from 2024 contain A security allowance of $ 14 million before taxes. Meanwhile nvidia output Almost 2.5 million US dollars in 2024 for the safety costs of CEO Jensen Huang.
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