Google CEO Sundar Pichai Earned $200 Million In 2016 Androidheadlines.com

Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai earned approximately $200 million last year, almost double what he received in compensation the year before. Pichai's 2016 compensation amounted to $199.35 million, which includes $650,000 in salary and a stock award worth $198.7 million, nearly double than the $99.8 million award received by the well-known executive in 2015. The latter increase is also the main reason why Pichai almost doubled his annual compensation year-on-year, having received $100.6 million in total in 2015, the year when he was appointed to lead Google. Pichai's appointment was officially made in August 2015, meaning that his 2016 compensation is likely significantly larger due to the fact that it accounts for an executive period that's three times longer, though that isn't to say that the Mountain View-based tech giant is dissatisfied with how the 44-year-old has been leading the company in the last 20 months. His first calendar year at the top of the Alphabet-owned Internet firm saw Google's net income and sales rise by 19 percent and 22.5 percentage points, respectively.