Highest Paid CEOs: From Elon Musk to Sundar Pichai… Know the salary of these top-5 CEOs of the world

High Salary Paid CEO 2022: Companies around the world are going through layoffs these days. Top tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft are in news for layoffs. But despite this, the CEOs of these companies are earning handsomely. It will not be easy for you to even guess the salary of the CEOs of these companies.

Yes, you will not even know how much the world's top CEOs have earned in the last year i.e. 2022, in this era of recession. According to a report published in Financial Express, here we are going to tell you about the salary of top CEOs around the world. These include the names of Apple CEO Tim Cook to Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai. So let's know about this...

Elon Musk

According to the report of Financial Express, Elon Musk, one of the world's second richest tycoons, has a basic salary of $ 1 million (estimated) but his compensation is quite high. He earns around 200 million dollars every month.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, at present his net worth has increased by $1.49 billion to $165 billion. Elon Musk is the founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla. After getting the Twitter deal, he has also become the owner of this microblogging site.

Tim Cook

Tim Cook, CEO of iPhone maker Apple Inc, is the highest paid CEO in the world. In the year 2022, he used to get a total compensation of $ 853 million. But he felt that his salary was very high. That's why he got his salary cut in 2023. After which his revised salary is 49 million dollars. Which includes his base salary of $3 million, bonus of $6 million and an equity worth $40 million.

Sundar Pichai 

The basic salary of Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google's parent company Alphabet Inc, is only $ 2 million for the last three years. But according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), filing, Sundar Pichai has received a salary of around $226 million in 2022. The amount paid to Pichai includes a stock award of roughly $218 million.

Satya Nadella

Satya Nadella is the CEO of Microsoft. He has been at the helm of Microsoft since 2017. His basic salary is 2.5 million dollars. According to the report of Financial Express, Satya Nadella received a total compensation of $ 54.9 million in 2022. In addition to basic salary, it also includes non-equity incentive compensation of $ 10.07 million in addition to stock award and stock performance award of $ 42.27 million.

Robert Scaringe

Robert Scaring is the CEO of Rivian Automotive. He is the second highest paid CEO in the world. In the year 2022, he has received a total compensation of $ 2.2 billion. Which includes his $650,000 salary, $2,288,594,284 stock options and other compensation of $26,197.