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8. Patrick Pichette, $22.6 million
Patrick Pichette, $22.6 million
Google Senior VP and CFO Patrick Pichette
Title: Senior VP and CFO
Company: Google (GOOG)
CEO: Eric Schmidt, $313,219*
Pay difference: $22.3 million

Google's ruling triumvirate -- co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plus CEO-turned-chairman Eric Schmidt -- each own billions in Google stock. Since 2005, they've taken just $1 a year in annual salary and passed up most other perks.

That leaves CFO Patrick Pichette, who joined Google in 2008, as the company's highest-paid executive. (He just barely edged out Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora, who also collected $22.6 million last year.) On top of a $492,115 salary and $2.7 million cash bonus, Pichette took home $19 million in stock and options in 2010. Eric Schmidt, Google's CEO at the time, netted just $313,219 from Google, most of it spent on personal security. --S.C.

Source: Equilar, Inc.


* Larry Page became CEO of Google April 4, 2011, Eric Schmidt is now executive chairman.
Methodology: Total compensation is calculated as the sum of base salary, discretionary and performance-based cash bonuses, the grant-date fair value for stock and option awards during the fiscal year, and other compensation like earnings on deferred compensation, benefits and perks. Equilar, an executive compensation research firm, looked at CEOs at 1,000 of the largest public U.S. companies as measured by revenue. Pay data based on companies' fiscal year end of Dec. 2010 unless otherwise noted. Cash compensation and stock and options increases may not add up exactly to total compensation increases due to rounding.
By Stacy Cowley and James O'Toole @CNNMoney - Last updated January 06 2012: 5:23 PM ET
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