Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO earned over $ 100 million in 2015

According to documents released during the weekend by Google, its CEO Sundar Pichai has earned 100.5 million dollars in 2015. The Indian-born executive becomes one of the highest paid CEOs of America as part of the technology sector : Pichai has earned $ 652,500 in salary, more than $ 99.8 million in restricted stock and just over $ 20,000 in "other compensation".

The enormous stake will be acquired though only a total in 2017. If that was not enough to satisfy the thirst for success of young executive in Silicon Valley, Google was keen to give him another prize during last February, the largest always delivered to a Google executive. We are talking about $ 199 million, according to Bloomberg, as an additional stake bound.

Pichai became CEO of Google last August after historians directors and co-creators of the company, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have reorganized the properties held within the parent company Alphabet. The two have continued to maintain their annual salary of 1 dollar. Pichai joined Google in 2004, and in 2008 he oversaw the successful launch of Chrome for desktop and laptop systems.

After the departure of Andy Rubin in 2013, Pichai has taken charge of the profitable business of Android, among the most important for the company. Here he tried to make the increasingly cohesive mobile platform between the various Google services, a feature that the product of Rubin apparently struggled to offer. Among the other executives of the company the Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has earned 8.04 million dollars and the CFO Ruth Porat $ 31 million of which 25.1 million in shares.

At the end of 2015 Kara Swisher of Re / code defined the Sundar Pichai phenomenon as "a clear demonstration that the good guys come in the top positions."