That’s how much money the employees make
It is an open secret that Google pays its employees relatively high salaries. But internal documents now reveal how much Google employees really earn. Software developers in particular are making a good profit.
Google employees earn an average salary of $280,000 a year. That’s going out internal documents out the dem Business Insider present. Accordingly, the US group collected the salary data of around 12,000 employees in a survey.
Google: Salaries of 12,000 employees leaked
The median salary includes both share packages and various bonuses and is based on different jobs and positions. According to the survey, software developers earn by far the most money. Because in the highest paid position, a Google developer earns around 718,000 US dollars per year.
For comparison, at the top, the highest salaries in other positions are about $300,000 below that. The top salaries in sales, design, research and law are between 300,000 and 400,000 US dollars. Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s salary is up According to reports again at $226 million.
He earns around 800 times as much as an average employee. Pichai has the majority of his salary paid out in the form of shares. Around eight million US dollars flowed into the Google boss’s account in 2022 in the form of salary and bonuses.
That’s how much you earn at Google in Germany
The internal documents belonging to the Business Insider are available, provide the deepest insights into Google’s salary structures to date. Meanwhile, the search engine giant claims not only to pay comparatively high salaries, but also to grant significantly more holidays and additional benefits than other companies.
For comparison: According to the Pay Atlas According to the Federal Employment Agency, leading software developers in Germany earn around 6,750 euros gross per month. This corresponds to an annual salary of 81,000 euros – without shares and bonuses. The job platform Kununu According to Google Germany, a software developer can even earn a salary of up to 100,000 euros.
Meanwhile, the significantly higher salaries in the US are due to the high cost of living in California. In a nationwide comparison, the income tax in the US state is also the highest.
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