Alphabet Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the average employee’s salary, the company said in a securities filing on Friday. Pichai’s compensation included stock awards of about $218 million, the filing showed.
The pay disparity comes as Alphabet, the parent company of Google, cuts jobs worldwide, with The Mountain View, California-based company announcing plans to cut 12,000 jobs worldwide in January, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce.
Earlier this month, hundreds of Google employees walked out of the company’s London offices following a dispute over layoffs. Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s Zurich offices in March after more than 200 employees were laid off.
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