“Google laid off 12,000 employees. Then they bought back $70B in stock. And then they gave Sundar Pichai a big raise that raised his total compensation to $226M. And now Google is discovering that their employees are upset.”

– Craig Andrews, 
April 5, 2023

NOTE: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, receives a $2 million base salary + $5 million for private security + stock boosts every 3 years. In 2019 his stock boost was $281 million. In 2022, $226 million. Alphabet stock fell by 39% in 2022.