Google's Executive Billionaires Take $1 Salaries
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 - Google Inc. paid its top three executives a token 2006 salary of $1 each for the third year running, and bonuses of $1,723 a piece, according to the company's annual proxy filed on Wednesday.
The pay-package belies the wealth of co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, who together own two-thirds of the voting stock of Google, which has a market capitalization of nearly $150 billion.
In the filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Web search leader said Schmidt received further compensation for $532,755 for personal security. The report did not detail the nature of the security costs. Another $22,456 went to offset taxes on aircraft chartered for Schmidt for Google business where family or friends flew along, it said.
Page received other compensation of $33,195 for transportation, logistics and personal security during personal travel and $3,600 for personal travel using rental vehicles.
The three had requested during the second quarter of 2004 -- in the run up to Google's initial public offering -- that the company cut their salaries to $1. The spectacular success of Google's IPO turned each of them into billionaires.
Previously, both Brin and Page had been paid a salary of $150,000 a year while Schmidt received $250,000 in salary.
Page held Google shares worth $29.2 billion, or 28.2 percent of the voting share of the company. Brin owned Google shares worth $28.6 billion, or 27.7 of voting shares.
Schmidt, who joined the startup in 2001, three years after its founding, owned shares worth $10.7 billion, or 10.3 percent of the voting power of the company, according to the proxy.
The figures reflect the value of holdings as of March 1.
Google's annual shareholder meeting is scheduled to be held at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters the afternoon of May 10th, the filing said.
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Thank goodness our ministers aren't paid this way. One lump sum is what they get.
Google is $1 salary, plus 1723 times don't know how many pieces. -
don't. if he is not paid market rate, he may jump ship upon headhunted or becomes corrupted
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At this rate, he won't.
Google is earning a lot of money right now.
Plus the $1 doesn't matter. It's the $1723 per piece that matters. Imagine if he has just 1000 pieces, he would have earned millions from it. -
but if he's paid $10M, he will have even moreOriginally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:At this rate, he won't.
Google is earning a lot of money right now.
Plus the $1 doesn't matter. It's the $1723 per piece that matters. Imagine if he has just 1000 pieces, he would have earned millions from it.
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Err...i'm with Mayi on this.Originally posted by LinYu:but if he's paid $10M, he will have even more
It's the 1000s pieces that matters.
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Well, thankfully our Minister pay are lump sum, not per piece. Else, the 1000s will be