Google bosses work for a buck. A year
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Posted in Financial News, 11th April 2005 08:19 GMT
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The founders of Google are getting a pay cut - they'll get just a dollar each this year.
Sergey Brin and Larry Page will get the nominal payment and no other bonuses or share options according to a regulatory filing made late last week.
Company chief executive Eric Schmidt also took the pay cut in spring last year - just before the company floated.
Before the cut Brin and Page received $150,000 and Schmidt got $250,000 a year. But Brin and Page also each own more than quarter of Google, worth $7bn, Schmidt has a ten per cent stake worth about $2.7bn.
The news will have little impact on the billionaires. The dollar-a-year chief executive is usually brought in to save companies in almost terminal decline - Steve Jobs took a dollar-a-year to return to Apple in 1996.®
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