Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc., got compensation of roughly $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee wage, the firm reported in a securities filing.
Pichai’s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million, the filing showed.
The salary gap occurs at a time when Google's parent firm, Alphabet, has been laying off workers all around the world. In January, the Mountain View, California-based corporation revealed plans to eliminate 12,000 jobs globally, or 6% of its total workforce.
Early 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.