Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai earned $226 million in total compensation in 2022, the highest disclosed CEO pay in the S&P 500 that year, though his 2024 compensation dropped to $8.8 million in salary plus stock awards. He grew up in a two-room apartment in Chennai, India, sharing a phone with neighbors, and joined Google in 2004. Leading both Google and Alphabet, he oversees 8.5 billion searches per day. His net worth is estimated at $1.5 billion, which is nearly double that of #7 Andy Jassy. Pichai's compensation is 65% larger than Satya Nadella's 2024 package, but his company's market cap growth lags behind Nadella's 10x return.