Google has laid off 12000 people worldwide, but CEO's annual salary is as high as 1.5 billion.

FAP, April 22 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- Sunder Pichai, the company's chief executive (CEO), will be paid a total of about $226 million (1.56 billion yuan) in 2022, according to a filing by Google's parent company Alphabet on Friday. This figure is more than 800 times the median income of its employees. The news attracted attention because Alphabet recently announced massive layoffs around the world. In January, alphabet began laying off about 12000 people, or about 6 per cent of its global workforce. In previous months, the company had taken other measures to cut spending.