Alphabet CEO Pichai reaps over $200 million in 2022 amid cost-cutting

FILE PHOTO: Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet, looks on during a session in Davos(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022, more than 800 times the median employee's pay, the company said in a securities filing on Friday. Pichai's compensation included stock awards of about $218 million, the filing showed. Early this month, hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company's London offices following a dispute over layoffs. In March, Google employees staged a walkout at the company's Zurich offices after more than 200 workers were laid off. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)