{"id":36588,"date":"2013-04-25T09:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36588"},"modified":"2013-04-25T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:30:18","slug":"1-salary-for-google-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/36588\/1-salary-for-google-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 salary for Google CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Larry Page and his longtime partner Sergey Brin limited their salaries to $1 apiece last year, while four other top executives received combined compensation packages totaling more than $124 million.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown disclosed in a regulatory filing Wednesday consists mostly of stock awards that could ultimately be worth more or less money, depending on how Google&#8217;s stock price fares in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Nikesh Arora, the head of Google&#8217;s business operations, led the pack with a compensation package value at $46.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc. co-founders Page and Brin have capped their salaries at $1 since the company went public in 2004. They each own Google stock currently worth about $20 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The AP&#8217;s calculation counts salary, bonuses, perks and stock and options awarded to each executive.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Google stories<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Can the whole world be connected by 2020?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/35909\/can-the-whole-world-be-connected-by-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Can the whole world be connected by 2020?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google rivals get chance to ramp up pressure\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/35841\/google-rivals-get-chance-to-ramp-up-pressure\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google rivals get chance to ramp up pressure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google seeks to settle antitrust battle\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/35586\/google-seeks-to-settle-antitrust-battle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google seeks to settle antitrust battle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google Glass startups get big support\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/35493\/google-glass-startups-get-big-support\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google Glass startups get big support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Google injects millions into EU data center\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/35273\/google-injects-millions-into-eu-data-center\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google injects millions into EU data center<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google CEO Larry Page and his longtime partner Sergey Brin limited their salaries to $1 apiece last year, while four other top executives received combined compensation packages totaling more than $124 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,151,53,2273,4564],"class_list":["post-36588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-ceo","tag-google","tag-larry-page","tag-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36604,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36588\/revisions\/36604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}