New York, Apr 22 (EFE).- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, received in 2022 compensation of more than 200 million dollars (180 million dollars), according to what the company has announced, which in recent months it has fired thousands of workers as part of an adjustment plan.
Pichai obtained most of that money in the form of shares as part of an agreement whereby every three years he receives a significant number of company shares, according to a document submitted to the US stock market regulator on Friday.
In total, last year the executive received shares valued at 218 million dollars, two million in salary and almost six million for private security.
In 2021, Pichai had had a compensation of just over six million dollars in total, while in 2019, when he had received his last big package of shares, he had obtained titles worth 281 million.
On this occasion, the multimillion-dollar compensation is announced after Alphabet launched an adjustment plan this year that includes some 12,000 layoffs, 6.4% of its workforce, and other saving measures.
The move by Google parent is similar to that of many other big tech companies, which have chosen to shed jobs after ramping up their workforces during the pandemic, when they reaped huge profits.
