Sundar Pichai
CEO of Alphabet and Google, who rose through the Chrome and Android teams to run one of the world’s largest advertising and AI companies.
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Pay vs performance
what happened while he earned itNo score, no opinion. Compensation is filed; stock and S&P are market returns over the window shown; revenue and EPS are latest reported vs the prior year. You decide.
Why this pay?
- Pichai's pay swings sharply by year because his equity comes in large multi-year grants; FY2024 was a low-equity year.
- A striking share of recent pay is personal security, roughly $8M in 2024.
Worth knowing
Google’s Sundar Pichai grew up in a two-room home in Chennai, India, with no television or car, sleeping in the living room with his younger brother. He now runs one of the most valuable companies on earth.
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Quick facts
Compensation breakdown
DEF 14AA low-equity year; ~$8.3M of "other" was personal security. Source: Alphabet 2025 Proxy (FY2024) →
Compensation history
salary + cash vs stock, from the proxiesRelated intelligence
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Every figure ties to a filing. Compensation is the total from Alphabet's Summary Compensation Table for FY2024(grant-date values, which can differ from what an executive realizes when awards vest). We publish what the filings say, and we don't grade people. Photo: Photographer: Lukasz Kobus (European Commission) / CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.