Alphabet Delivers for Employees, Shareholders Win
The Wall Street Journal analyzed the median pay at SP 500 companies in 2021. It found that Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG , NASDAQ: GOOGL ) paid out $295,884 in total compensation to its employees. That’s very good news for GOOG stock. How’s that, you might ask? Well, when you’ve got a tight employment market, the last thing you want to do is go cheap on employee pay. After all, they’ve got options. Besides, do you want to be one of the 44 companies whose median income was less than $30,000? In March, I wrote about Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) creating more jobs in the past decade than any other U.S. company. Unsurprisingly, AMZN stock’s annualized total return over the past decade is a whopping 27.2%, double the performance of the entire U.S. market. Combining job growth and increasing median pay is a recipe for a stock’s success. Alphabet is no different. Ticker Company Current Price GOOG Alphabet Inc. $2,145.52 GOOG Stock and Employee Pay The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted company pay ratio rules in August 2015.
Alphabet Delivers for Employees, Shareholders Win
The Wall Street Journal analyzed the median pay at SP 500 companies in 2021. It found that Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG , NASDAQ: GOOGL ) paid out $295,884 in total compensation to its employees. That’s very good news for GOOG stock. How’s that, you might ask? Well, when you’ve got a tight employment market, the last thing you want to do is go cheap on employee pay. After all, they’ve got options. Besides, do you want to be one of the 44 companies whose median income was less than $30,000? In March, I wrote about Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) creating more jobs in the past decade than any other U.S. company. Unsurprisingly, AMZN stock’s annualized total return over the past decade is a whopping 27.2%, double the performance of the entire U.S. market. Combining job growth and increasing median pay is a recipe for a stock’s success. Alphabet is no different. Ticker Company Current Price GOOG Alphabet Inc. $2,145.52 GOOG Stock and Employee Pay The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted company pay ratio rules in August 2015.