A mid-level Google worker made $331,894 in 2024, a 5% improve from the median wage of $315,531 in 2023, per a brand new submitting submitted by Google’s guardian firm, Alphabet, to the U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee.
The determine aligns with compensation at different tech giants in recent times. At Meta, for instance, the median pay for workers in 2023 was $379,000 a yr.
The submitting additional confirmed that Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai obtained whole annual compensation of $10,725,043 final yr, about 32 instances greater than the median worker. Pichai obtained an almost $2 million elevate from the $8,802,824 he made in 2023.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Photograph by Klaudia Radecka/NurPhoto by way of Getty Photos
The majority of Pichai’s compensation got here from the “All Different Compensation” class, in addition to his $2,015,385 base wage and $405,630 in inventory awards.
The remaining $8,304,028 included Pichai’s private safety prices, which climbed 22% from the $6,775,631 Google paid in 2023 to $8,267,123 in 2024. The class additionally included his retirement plan and use of firm plane or vehicles.
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“Because of Sundar’s vital public profile, Alphabet gives him with safety safety,” Alphabet’s 2025 proxy assertion reads. “In 2024, Sundar’s safety preparations included residential safety and session charges, safety monitoring providers, automobile and driver providers, and private safety throughout all journey.”
Alphabet referred to as Pichai’s private safety bills “cheap, applicable, mandatory and in one of the best pursuits of Alphabet and its stockholders.”
Different tech CEOs even have seven or eight-figure safety prices. For instance, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s $27.2 million whole compensation in 2024 included a $14 million pre-tax safety allowance. In the meantime, Nvidia spent practically $2.5 million in 2024 on CEO Jensen Huang’s safety prices.
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