- Some Google employees aren't happy about Sundar Pichai's $226 million paycheck.
- Memes targeting the executive's pay have been posted on Google's internal forums, CNBC reported.
Some Google employees aren't happy about CEO Sundar Pichai's pay packet amid the company's cost-cutting.
Several workers have been venting on internal systems, sharing memes criticizing the chief executive for receiving a pay increase during a difficult time for the company, $4.
Per the outlet, one meme showed Lord Farquaad from "Shrek," quoting his infamous line, "Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make." The accompanying text read: "Sundar accepting $226 million while laying off 12k Googlers, cutting perks, and destroying morale and culture," the report added.
Google laid off around 12,000 workers — or 6% of its global workforce — in January. At the time, Pichai said he took "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here" as the company had "hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today." Since then, the company has continued to cut back on its $4.
Pichai's pay packet was $4 worth $218 million. According to court filings, the executive was paid $226 million in 2022, making him one of the highest-paid CEOs in the US.
Pichai is awarded shares every three years. In 2019, he was paid more than $280 million, significantly more than the $7.4 million he made in 2020 and just over $6 million he collected in 2021, $4.
However, at the company's all-hands meeting, he said Google executives would take a "very significant reduction in their annual bonus," as $4.
Google declined to comment to Insider.