Sundar Pichai

Alphabet/Google's CEO earned $226 million in total compensation in 2022 — the highest disclosed CEO pay in the S&P 500 that year. His 2024 compensation was more modest at $8.8 million in salary plus stock awards. Pichai grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai, India, sharing a phone with neighbors. He joined Google in 2004, led the Chrome browser team, then Android, then became CEO of both Google and Alphabet. His net worth is estimated at $1.5 billion. He oversees a company that processes 8.5 billion searches per day.