Despite their mass layoffs, Alphabet and Meta were among the top-paying big companies in 2022, according to analysis in the Wall Street Journal

 

According to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal, Alphabet, the parent company of Google, and Meta were among the top-paying public companies in 2022. Meta placed second, offering employees a median salary of nearly $300,000, and Alphabet was third with a median wage of $280,000. Vici Properties came top with a median salary of around $415,000. Alphabet and Meta have cut around 33,000 staffers since 2022, and Google's median pay package slipped from the top spot in 2021.

 The Journal reported that, overall, median salary ranges in 2022 didn't fall "significantly" from 2021. Among the S&P 500 executives, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai had the highest salary package of $226 million — 808 times more than the company's median pay — while Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg took home $28 million in compensation, 91 times more than its median pay. Vici Properties' CEO Edward Pitoniak had a pay ratio of 28 — down from 273 in 2021.