Alphabet's Sundar Pichai was paid a total of $226 million last year after he was awarded a big tranche of shares, making him one of America's best-paid CEOs. Alphabet cut 12,000 jobs in January and Pichai said in a memo he was taking "full responsibility for the decisions that led us here. Elon Musk was arguably the best-paid boss last year after selling shares in Tesla worth almost $23 billion to help fund his takeover of Twitter