{"id":99608,"date":"2014-03-29T07:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T05:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=99608"},"modified":"2014-03-29T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T06:06:44","slug":"google-ceos-take-home-another-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/99608-google-ceos-take-home-another-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Google CEOs take home another $1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google paid co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin their customary $1 salaries last year while Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt&#8217;s compensation more than doubled to $19.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Most of Schmidt&#8217;s raise stemmed from stock grants valued at $11.4 million. Regulatory documents filed Friday revealed the grants were issued to make up for an administrative error in the handling of another large award given to Schmidt in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Page, Google&#8217;s chief executive, and Brin, another top executive, have insisted on capping their salaries at $1 annually since Google Inc. went public nearly a decade ago. The two men each own Google stock currently worth about $26 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The AP&#8217;s compensation calculation counts salary, bonuses, perks and stock and options awarded to the executive during the year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/99328-google-cuts-cloud-computing-prices.html\">Google cuts cloud computing prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/99240-luxottica-and-google-in-deal-for-glass-eyewear.html\">Luxottica and Google in deal for Glass eyewear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/99006-google-play-movies-expanded-in-africa-but-not-sa.html\">Google Play Movies expanded in Africa\u2026 but not SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google paid co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin their customary $1 salaries last year while Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt&#8217;s compensation more than doubled to $19.3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":78268,"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":[18],"tags":[36,167,19210],"class_list":["post-99608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-google","tag-salary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99608"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}