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Alphabet (GOOG): executive pay, fiscal 2025

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CEO total pay$10,906,079CEO Sundar Pichai · source
Say-on-pay support81.06%Latest vote · source
CEO vs. named peers9th pct.Of 11 peer CEOs
CEO pay ratio35:1To the median employee · source

CEO pay, last three years

  • $8,802,824FY2023
  • $10,725,043FY2024
  • $10,906,079FY2025

CEO total pay was $10,906,079 in fiscal 2025, up from $10,725,043 in fiscal 2024.

FY2025: salary $2,007,692 · bonus $0 · stock awards $0 · option awards $0

Executives and directors

Frequently asked questions

Who was the highest-paid executive at Alphabet in fiscal 2025?
As disclosed, Philipp Schindler (Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer, Google) was the highest-paid executive at Alphabet in fiscal 2025, with total compensation of $42,201,551.
How does Alphabet's chief executive pay compare to its disclosed peer group?
As disclosed, Sundar Pichai's total compensation ranked at the 9th percentile of Alphabet's disclosed peer group.
What is Alphabet's CEO-to-median employee pay ratio?
As disclosed, Alphabet's CEO-to-median employee pay ratio was 35:1.
How did shareholders vote on Alphabet's executive compensation?
As disclosed, 81.06% of shareholders supported Alphabet's executive compensation in the latest say-on-pay vote.
How much does Alphabet spend in total on board compensation for fiscal 2025?
As disclosed, Alphabet reported total board compensation of $3,266,907 for fiscal 2025.

Answers are drawn only from the figures disclosed in this brief and cited to their location in the source filing. Where a figure required for an answer is not disclosed, that is stated rather than estimated.

Full detail

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Summary compensation table
Named executive officerSalaryBonusStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentivePension / NQDCAll otherTotal
Philipp Schindler$1,003,846$0$40,577,554$0$0$0$620,151$42,201,551
Senior Vice President, Chief Business Officer, Google
Anat Ashkenazi1,003,846030,171,07000084,11531,259,031
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google, as of July 31, 2024
Kent Walker1,003,846028,123,53200011,75029,139,128
President, Global Affairs, Chief Legal Officer, and Secretary, Alphabet and Google
Ruth Porat1,003,846028,123,53200011,75029,139,128
President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet and Google
Sundar Pichai2,007,692000008,898,38710,906,079
Chief Executive Officer, Alphabet and Google, and Director

A dash means the company reported no figure in that column; 0 means it reported zero. Figures are as printed in the filing, without adjustment.

Three-year trend — total compensation per named executive

Named executive officerFY2025 totalFY2024 totalFY2023 totalΔ FY2024→2025
Philipp Schindler$42,201,551$47,024,009$41,952,971↓ −4,822,458
Anat Ashkenazi31,259,03149,978,135—↓ −18,719,104
Kent Walker29,139,12830,162,76027,343,167↓ −1,023,632
Ruth Porat29,139,12830,166,42727,347,130↓ −1,027,299
Sundar Pichai10,906,07910,725,0438,802,824↑ +181,036

Prior-year totals as disclosed in the corresponding proxy; deltas are computed values with the derivation shown in the register.

Incentive-plan design — the Compensation Discussion & Analysis

CEO STI target (% of salary)—
CEO LTI target (% of salary)—
Independent consultantCompensia Inc. and Semler Brossy
Clawback policytrue
Anti-hedging—
Anti-pledging—
Equity grants and outstanding awards

Grants of plan-based awards — fiscal year 2025

ExecutiveAwardGrant dateThresholdTargetGrantedMaximumGrant-date fair value
Anat AshkenaziRSU2025-03-05——121,779—$21,310,107
Philipp SchindlerRSU2025-03-05——143,270—25,070,817
Kent WalkerPSU2025-03-0518,80537,609—75,2187,753,471
Kent WalkerRSU2025-03-05——116,407—20,370,061
Ruth PoratPSU2025-03-0518,80537,609—75,2187,753,471
Anat AshkenaziPSU2025-03-0521,49142,981—85,9628,860,963
Philipp SchindlerPSU2025-03-0537,60975,217—150,43415,506,737
Ruth PoratRSU2025-03-05——116,407—20,370,061

Vehicle mix — grant-date fair value by award type

Named executive officerTime-vested (RSU)Performance-vested (PSU)Options / SARs% performance-vested
Anat Ashkenazi$21,310,107$8,860,963$029.4%
Philipp Schindler25,070,81715,506,737038.2%
Kent Walker20,370,0617,753,471027.6%
Ruth Porat20,370,0617,753,471027.6%

% performance-vested = PSU grant-date fair value ÷ (RSU + PSU + Options), a computed value with the derivation shown in the register.

Outstanding equity awards at fiscal year-end 2025

ExecutiveAwardShares unvestedExercise priceMarket value unvested
Anat AshkenaziRSU27,612—$8,664,646
Ruth PoratRSU31,730—9,956,874
Kent WalkerRSU31,730—9,956,874
Anat AshkenaziRSU33,134—10,397,449
Ruth PoratRSU37,755—11,847,519
Kent WalkerRSU37,755—11,847,519
Ruth PoratRSU38,077—11,948,563
Kent WalkerRSU38,077—11,948,563
Anat AshkenaziRSU43,148—13,539,842
Philipp SchindlerRSU48,654—15,267,625
Anat AshkenaziRSU68,318—21,438,188
Ruth PoratRSU68,319—21,438,502
Kent WalkerRSU68,319—21,438,502
Philipp SchindlerRSU75,510—23,695,038
Philipp SchindlerRSU76,151—23,896,184
Philipp SchindlerRSU86,297—27,079,999
Ruth PoratRSU94,715—29,721,567
Kent WalkerRSU94,715—29,721,567
Philipp SchindlerRSU227,313—71,330,819
Sundar PichaiRSU1,348,607—423,192,877
Director compensation
DirectorCash feesStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveAll otherTotal
John L. HennessyIndependent · Board Chair · Executive · Nominating and Corporate Governance (Chair) · Governance (Chair)$100,000$517,529——$0$617,529
Roger W. Ferguson JrIndependent · Audit (Chair) · Executive · Risk (Chair)100,000362,396——0462,396
L. John DoerrIndependent · Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation75,000362,396——0437,396
Robin L. WashingtonIndependent · Audit · Risk and Compliance · Executive · Compensation (Chair)75,000362,396——0437,396
K. Ram ShriramIndependent · Leadership Development, Inclusion and Compensation75,000362,396——0437,396
Frances H. ArnoldIndependent · Nominating and Corporate Governance · Governance75,000362,396——0437,396
R. Martin “Marty” ChávezIndependent · Audit · Risk and Compliance75,000362,396——0437,396
Larry PageEmployee director · Executive00——11
Sergey BrinEmployee director · Executive00——11
Sundar PichaiEmployee director · Executive—————0

Board fee structure and ownership guideline

Annual cash retainer$75,000
Annual equity retainer$350,000
Per board meeting fee—
Committee chair fees (audit / comp / nom-gov)25,000
Stock ownership guideline$1,000,000

Total cost of the board

ComponentFY2025
Cash retainers and fees$575,000
Equity awards (grant-date value)$2,691,905
All other compensation$2
Total cost of the board$3,266,907

Computed as the sum of the director compensation table rows above; inputs and formula shown in the register.

Peer group, and who names Alphabet as a peer

Companies that benchmark against GOOG

29 companies name GOOG as a compensation peer

The list of companies that name GOOG as a peer is temporarily unavailable — recheck shortly.

Disclosed peer group — fiscal year 2025

The compensation peer group as the company disclosed it in its own proxy — the reference set behind the percentile above.

Peer reciprocity

Of the companies Alphabet names as compensation peers, which name it back in their own disclosed peer groups. A peer set the market reciprocates reads differently from one selected in a single direction.

Reciprocity shown where the peer’s own current proxy has been read — each mark is cited in the register to that peer’s filing. A dash means the peer’s current proxy was read and names no reciprocal group including Alphabet.

Chief executive pay against the peer group

Most recent fiscal-year chief executive compensation at each disclosed peer, taken from that company’s own proxy statement.

RankCompanyFYChief executiveSalaryStock awardsOption awardsNon-equity incentiveTotal
1Oracle Corporation2026Clayton Magouyrk$942,308$0$621,669,237$4,851,178$627,472,419
2Microsoft Corporation2026Satya Nadella2,500,00077,570,774010,299,00090,628,977
3Apple Inc.2025Tim Cook3,000,00057,535,293012,000,00074,294,811
4Netflix, Inc.2025Ted Sarandos3,000,00041,398,42407,053,95853,905,972
5Salesforce, Inc.2026Marc Benioff1,550,00027,265,36010,743,0973,602,58849,379,252
6Cisco Systems, Inc.2026Charles Robbins1,390,00039,040,85106,685,90048,527,813
7The Walt Disney Company2025Robert Iger1,000,00021,000,05714,000,0067,250,00045,842,574
8International Business Machines Corporation2025Arvind Krishna1,500,00023,988,5866,606,3125,250,00037,989,685
9Nvidia2026Jen-Hsun Huang1,497,62724,800,51106,000,00036,343,830
10Meta Platforms, Inc.2025Mark Zuckerberg100025,125,904
11Alphabet2025Sundar Pichai2,007,69200010,906,079
12Amazon.com, Inc.2025Andrew Jassy365,0000002,069,861

Each peer’s compensation is from its most recently filed proxy; fiscal years differ by company. Each peer’s figures come from its own filings; the subject company is highlighted. Peers whose chief executive compensation is outside our coverage universe are stated as such, never left blank.

Incentive design against the same peers

CompanyAnnual incentive payoutLong-term vehicle mixPSU measures include TSRCompensation consultant
Alphabetnot disclosednot disclosednot disclosedCompensia Inc. and Semler Brossy
Amazon.com, Inc.not disclosedRSU 100not disclosedNone (Committee may engage compensation consultants but did not do so in 2025)
Apple Inc.not disclosednot disclosedYes — Relative TSRPay Governance LLC
Cisco Systems, Inc.not disclosedPRSU 60 · RSU 40not disclosedExequity
International Business Machines Corporation150%not disclosedYes — Relative Total Shareholder Return (rTSR)Semler Brossy
Meta Platforms, Inc.115%RSU 100not disclosedCompensia, Inc.
Microsoft Corporationnot disclosedPSU 100 · RSU 50not disclosedPay Governance
Netflix, Inc.117.57%PSU 50 · RSU 50Yes — Company TSR relative to the TSR of the companies in the S&P 500Compensia
Nvidia200%PSU 100Yes — TSR relative to the S&P 500Semler Brossy
Oracle Corporationnot disclosedOption 80 · PRSU 20NoCompensia, Inc.
Salesforce, Inc.103.3%RSU 50 · PRSU 33 · Performance Option 17Yes — Relative TSRSemler Brossy
The Walt Disney Companynot disclosedPSU 60 · Options 40Yes — TSR performance relative to the S&P 500 Media & Entertainment IndexPay Governance LLC

Read from each company’s Compensation Discussion and Analysis: annual incentive payout as a percentage of target, the disclosed long-term vehicle mix, whether performance-share measures include a total shareholder return component, and the retained compensation consultant. “Not disclosed” appears only where the company’s filing does not state the item.

Say-on-pay history and pay ratio
Meeting yearMeeting dateForAgainstAbstainSupportOutcome
20262026-04-249,989,122,7172,333,576,33147,729,01681.06%Passed

Rows are labeled by annual-meeting year, with the meeting date beside each; the vote held in a given year acts on the prior fiscal year’s compensation.

Say-on-pay — history, company’s computation

Meeting yearMeeting dateApproval — company’s computation
20262026-04-2481.06%a

a. Voting standard not stated in the filing.

Approval percentages are the company’s own reported computations under its own stated standard, not recomputed by Velarion. Where a company does not state a standard, none is assumed.

CEO pay ratio

Ratio (CEO : median employee)35 : 1
CEO total compensation$10,906,079
Median employee compensation—
Insider trades since the proxy

No insider equity transactions reported since the proxy statement.

Sources (51 citations)

Each figure is listed with the filing it comes from, where it appears in that filing, and the value as printed. Any figure can be independently confirmed against the source.

  • Section 01, Philipp Schindler. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 50. As printed: 42,201,551. View filing ↗
  • Section 01, Anat Ashkenazi. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 50. As printed: 31,259,031. View filing ↗
  • Section 01, Kent Walker. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 50. As printed: 29,139,128. View filing ↗
  • Section 01, Ruth Porat. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 50. As printed: 29,139,128. View filing ↗
  • Section 01, Sundar Pichai. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Summary Compensation Table” · page 50. As printed: 10,906,079. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Anat Ashkenazi RSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Philipp Schindler RSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Kent Walker PSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Kent Walker RSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Ruth Porat PSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Anat Ashkenazi PSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Philipp Schindler PSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 03, Ruth Porat RSU. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Grants of Plan-Based Awards in 202” · grants of plan-based awards table. View filing ↗
  • Section 07, pay ratio. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “CEO Pay Ratio”. As printed: 35 : 1. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, John L. Hennessy. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 617,529. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 462,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, L. John Doerr. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 437,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Robin L. Washington. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 437,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, K. Ram Shriram. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 437,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Frances H. Arnold. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 437,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, R. Martin “Marty” Chávez. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 437,396. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Larry Page. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 1. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Sergey Brin. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 1. View filing ↗
  • Section 08, Sundar Pichai. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. Section “Director Compensation”. As printed: 0. View filing ↗
  • Section 06, 2026 vote. Form 8-K, filed 2026-06-11. Item 5.07 · say-on-pay result. As reported: 81.06% (votes for as printed: 9,989,122,717). View filing ↗
  • Section 01 trend, Δ column (computed). Computed. Δ = current-FY total − prior-FY total per named officer.
  • Section 03b vehicle mix (computed). Computed. RSU / PSU / Options grant-date fair values summed per officer from the grants table; % performance-vested = PSU ÷ (RSU+PSU+Options).
  • Section 09b board cost (computed). Computed. Cash 575,000 + equity 2,691,905 + all other 2 = 3,266,907, summed across the director compensation table rows.
  • Oracle Corporation, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-09-25. CEO total compensation as printed in Oracle Corporation's own proxy. As printed: 627,472,419. View filing ↗
  • Microsoft Corporation, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-10-21. CEO total compensation as printed in Microsoft Corporation's own proxy. As printed: 90,628,977. View filing ↗
  • Apple Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-01-08. CEO total compensation as printed in Apple Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 74,294,811. View filing ↗
  • Netflix, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-16. CEO total compensation as printed in Netflix, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 53,905,972. View filing ↗
  • Salesforce, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-16. CEO total compensation as printed in Salesforce, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 49,379,252. View filing ↗
  • Cisco Systems, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-10-29. CEO total compensation as printed in Cisco Systems, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 48,527,813. View filing ↗
  • The Walt Disney Company, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-01-22. CEO total compensation as printed in The Walt Disney Company's own proxy. As printed: 45,842,574. View filing ↗
  • International Business Machines Corporation, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-03-10. CEO total compensation as printed in International Business Machines Corporation's own proxy. As printed: 37,989,685. View filing ↗
  • Nvidia, Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-05-12. CEO total compensation as printed in Nvidia's own proxy. As printed: 36,343,830. View filing ↗
  • Meta Platforms, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-16. CEO total compensation as printed in Meta Platforms, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 25,125,904. View filing ↗
  • Alphabet (subject), Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-24. CEO total compensation as printed in Alphabet's own proxy. As printed: 10,906,079. View filing ↗
  • Amazon.com, Inc., Section 10b CEO total. DEF 14A, filed 2026-04-09. CEO total compensation as printed in Amazon.com, Inc.'s own proxy. As printed: 2,069,861. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, International Business Machines Corporation reciprocity. DEF 14A. International Business Machines Corporation's most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Apple Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Apple Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Cisco Systems, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Cisco Systems, Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Nvidia reciprocity. DEF 14A. Nvidia's most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Amazon.com, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Amazon.com, Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Netflix, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Netflix, Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Meta Platforms, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Meta Platforms, Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, The Walt Disney Company reciprocity. DEF 14A. The Walt Disney Company's most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Oracle Corporation reciprocity. DEF 14A. Oracle Corporation's most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Microsoft Corporation reciprocity. DEF 14A. Microsoft Corporation's most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
  • Section 10a, Salesforce, Inc. reciprocity. DEF 14A. Salesforce, Inc.'s most recent proxy was read; its disclosed peer group does not include Alphabet. View filing ↗
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