India-born Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, took home Rs 1,200 crore last year

No wonder you do business or job. Sundar Pichai, India-born CEO of Google, got about USD 200 million (over Rs 1200 crore) in pay last year, double the sum he got in 2015.

Pichai (44), got the salary of USD 650,000 a year ago, marginally not exactly the USD 652,500 he earned in 2015. In any case, the long-time Google representative, who was named CEO during the organization's re-association in August 2015, got a stock award of USD 198.7 million in 2016, roughly double his 2015 stock honor of USD 99.8 million.

The organization's remuneration board of trustees credited the lavish pay to Pichai's advancement to CEO and various successful product launches.

Larry Page, Google's co-founder and past CEO, moved his concentration to develop new organizations under the Alphabet umbrella.

With the help of Pichai, Google has gained boosted sales from its core advertising and YouTube business, while likewise putting resources into machine learning, hardware and distributed computing, the report said.

In 2016, Google divulged new cell phones, a virtual reality headset, a router and a voice controlled smart speaker. These endeavors have begun to pay off for Google.