Company: GOOGL
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001308179-25-000511
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Company: Alphabet Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
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Alphabet CEO Pay Ratio The 2024 annual total compensation of our median compensated employee was $331,894, and the 2024 annual total compensation of our CEO was $10,725,043. The resulting ratio of Chief Executive Officer to Median Employee total compensation is 32 to 1. The Chief Executive Officer total compensation reflects Sundar’s 2024 total compensation as shown in the Summary Compensation Table on page 49. To determine the median employee compensation, we analyzed all of Alphabet’s employees, excluding Alphabet’s Chief Executive Officer, as of December 31, 2024. We annualized wages and salaries for employees that were not employed for the full year. We used base salary and target bonus as the consistently applied compensation measure to determine the median employee. If this resulted in more than one individual at the median level, we assessed the grant date fair value of standard equity awards for these individuals and selected the employee with the median award value. After identifying the median employee, we calculated annual total compensation for the median employee according to the methodology used to report the annual total compensation of our named executive officers in the 2024 Summary Compensation Table on page 49.

As outlined earlier in the CD&A, the Compensation Committee has implemented an executive compensation program that prioritizes performance and aims to align employee and stockholder interests. The following table sets forth additional compensation information for our principal executive officer (PEO) and our non-PEO named executive officers (Non-PEO NEOs), calculated in accordance with Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K, for fiscal years 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.

Compensation Actually Paid (CAP) captures, in
part, the change in value of unvested shares within each reporting year. Given the vast majority of compensation for our PEO and
Non-PEO NEOs is awarded in equity, their CAP values trend in line with Alphabet’s stock price. This is especially true for
our PEO, who last received a multi-year equity award package in December 2022. The majority of the shares underlying this award
remained unvested as of December 31, 2024. Our PEO did not receive an equity award in 2024, but the considerable stock price increase
in 2024, and the corresponding increase in the value of our PEO’s unvested shares granted in December 2022, resulted in
a sizable CAP that