Google executives received $ 199 million award
Google CEO Sundar Pichai became the world's most paid-for leader after he was awarded 199 bonuses of millions of dollars.
This amount is more than what the company pays to the US government for taxes. This makes Google CEO the highest paid boss of a US company.
Pichai will receive 273328 Alphabet (owned by Google) Class C shares. To fully cash out this bonus, Pichai will need to work at Google until 2019.
Tim Cook received a similarly generous $ 378 million bonus package when he took over as CEO of Apple. Tim Cook received a similarly generous $ 378 million package when he took over as CEO of Apple.
According to Equilar, the highest paid CEO in 2014 was David Zaslav of Discovery Communications. He brought home $ 156,1 billion.
Pachai was hired as CEO of Google in August 2015, following the reorganization and creation of Alfabeth.
As ForumDaily wrote earlier, Alphabet has become the most expensive company in the world, ahead of Apple, but the latter promptly returned imagine leadership.
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