Google released its proxy statement at the same time as it was delivering its first-quarter earnings report Thursday, so you might have missed Chairman Eric Schmidt’s $672,400 bill “for personal use of aircraft chartered by Google for an annual conference” and the nearly $130 million paid to Omid Kordestani, the chief business officer who returned to Google last summer after a 5-year absence.
Here was the compensation of Google’s top executives last year, not counting co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who take in one-dollar salaries but are the company’s two biggest stockholders:
Omid Kordestani: $129,903,052 (that included a $6 million bonus, most of it from when he rejoined the company in August)
Eric Schmidt, chairman: $108,690,772 (including $303,142 for personal security the $672,400 aircraft bill)
David Drummond, chief legal officer and head of corporate development: $44,258,888
Patrick Pichette, CFO: $43,757,484
Above: Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt talked at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. on Monday, March 3, 2014. (Gary Reyes/Bay Area News Group)