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CEOs' pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft, data shows (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1125959

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What's extra insane about the google one, Pichai's salary of 225m divided over the 10k workers fired is a staggering 22.5k/yr. If you assume the average tech salary of a remote google employee is somewhere in the 50k-100k range, that's 2.5k-5k / 10k workers that could have been saved by cutting Pichai instead.

Forget societal ethics, how do you justify to shareholders cutting ten thousand salaries worth of jobs and giving half the money to the CEO?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Because the shareholders get the other half

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

This feels like one of those weird game theory problems where you have to solve for the minimum amount you would have to pay to ensure no one bothers to stop you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If I were a large shareholder, I'd demand a lot more than half goes to growth or my own dividends.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't Pichai's compensation mostly tied to stock?

It's... Not really the same thing, because being the CEO of the company ties the hands behind his back if he wants to actually use his stock compensation.

Edit: for any Google SWE making <100k, just move to the US, man. The pay is so much higher it's not even funny.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Comparing pay from one country to another is a lot harder than just looking at the numbers. Earning 100k$ in the US is not the same as earning 100k$ in Poland for example

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

This. It's like day and night. 100k in SF isn't much at all