{"id":76506,"date":"2013-04-25T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T07:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=76506"},"modified":"2013-04-25T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:44:08","slug":"google-ceo-gets-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/76506-google-ceo-gets-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Google CEO gets $1 salary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Larry Page\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/366022-Larry-Page\">Larry Page<\/a> and his longtime partner <a title=\"Sergey Brin\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/372538-Sergey-Brin\">Sergey Brin<\/a> 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><a title=\"Nikesh Arora\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/499742-Nikesh-Arora\">Nikesh Arora<\/a>, 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 on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/76138-google-play-revenue-surges-but-far-short-of-apple.html\">Google Play revenue surges, but far short of Apple<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/76122-google-defends-uk-tax-bill.html\">Google defends UK tax bill<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/75789-google-apps-mail-drive-api-down.html\">Google Apps Mail, Drive, API down<\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":73054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[167,2802,7979,5666],"class_list":["post-76506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-google","tag-larry-page","tag-quicknews","tag-sergey-brin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76534,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76506\/revisions\/76534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}