Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet and Google
Sundar Pichai has run Google since 2015. Alphabet followed in 2019. Unlike most peers on this list, he took no new stock award in the reported fiscal year. His pay was almost entirely salary, plus a large security and personal-benefits line the filing attributes mostly to protective costs incurred on his behalf.
Total compensation
Grade A — Primary Document$10,906,079total, FY2025 (ended December 31, 2025)
Salary $2,007,692; no bonus, stock award, or incentive-plan payout; all other compensation $8,898,387 — mostly security costs, per the proxy's standard disclosure practice. This is roughly comparable to FY2024's $10,800,694 and well above FY2023's $8,802,824.
- Filing
- DEF 14A
- Filed
- 2026-04-24
- Accession #
- 0001308179-26-000342
- Status
- reported
Reported equity holdings
Grade A — Primary Document$1,111,104,359.99as of 2026-07-25
3,220,499 shares × $345.01/share (Yahoo Finance, priced 2026-08-14T17:23:50Z)
Sums five ownership lines from Pichai's most recent Form 4: 227,560 Class A shares direct, 1,667,726 Class C shares direct, 213,749 unvested Class C stock units, and 555,732 Class C shares each in two family annuity trusts (his and his spouse's). Mixes share classes and unvested units at a single price — a close approximation, not an exact market value.
- Filing
- Form 4
- As of
- 2026-07-25
- Price source
- Yahoo Finance
- Priced
- 2026-08-14T17:23:50Z
Share value is a snapshot at the priced date, not a fixed mark — the underlying price moves the next trading session.