Leaked Google pay data reveals the highest salaries the tech giant pays in engineering, sales, and more

• Insider obtained an internal spreadsheet that shows much Google employees were paid in 2022.
• Insider crunched the numbers to find the highest base salaries for US-based roles at the tech giant.

The median total compensation at Google in 2022 was $279,802 — but which roles raked in the highest salaries?

Insider obtained an internal company spreadsheet that was shared among Google employees. The sheet includes salary data for more than 12,000 US-based employees in 2022 and covers a range of roles, including software engineers and business analysts.

It also includes data on equity and bonuses, which can significantly boost an employee's total compensation.

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The spreadsheet gives us our best look yet at how much the tech giant is paying staff, with some limitations: the data is for US-based roles only and includes data that employees voluntarily submitted.

Naturally, employees who had been at the company longer and worked at a higher level tended to have higher salaries. For example, the highest-paid software engineer in the data reported being a level 7 employee who made $718,000 in base salary. Most software engineers on the sheet reported making from $100,000 to $375,000.

"We provide top-of-market compensation to our workforce, across salary, equity, leave, and a suite of benefits," Tamani Jayasinghe, a Google spokesperson, said in a statement.

Below are the highest base salaries posted in the sheet:

Read the full story to see the compensation database and charts comparing pay across roles.