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They could, but even if they cut it to 0, assuming going from $226 million compensation (number I found for 2022, most of which by far is stock), and median employee costing $300k (I found a number around $270k median total comp, but the total cost is higher), that makes room for about 750 additional employees. Google has about 150k employees, so I think they're laying off more than that. Of course there are other highly paid people in other top positions there too, but the thing about a CEO is, you only need one of them. If we would only consider cash, the number of employees would be much smaller.
Yes, cutting the CEO's pay won't prevent layoffs. Excellent work, detective. That was definitely the aim of my comment and not a simple matter of principle.
I often wonder if we actually do need one of them