Sundar Pichai’s new salary package could be $692 million. per a filed First spied by FTAlphabet has signed a three-year deal for its Google CEO that could make him one of the highest-paid executives on the planet — but much of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives tied to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.
What is surprising is how little attention Pichai receives from the public compared to Google’s founders. Larry Page and Sergey Brin – the second and fourth richest people in the world – have been in the headlines recently for a completely different reason; Both are buying up Miami’s lavish properties, widely seen as a response to California’s proposed Billionaires Tax Act – A ballot initiative targeting the state’s nearly 200 billionaires that would impose a one-time 5% levy on their net worth more than $1 billion. Page reportedly recently spent over $173 million on two mansions in Coconut Grove, Florida, while Brin was just linked to a $51 million megamansion. 14 miles awayThe addition of the two earlier purchases totals $92 million.
By contrast, as far as the public knows, Pichai has quietly put down roots in Los Altos. He’s also a billionaire – the nearly sevenfold increase in Google’s market cap since he took over in 2015 has made the stock he’s amassed extremely valuable. He and his wife currently own shares worth approx. $500 millionwith another guess $650 million Sold by last summer, according to Bloomberg calculations.
