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American software engineer and businessman, Eric Schmidt has an estimated net worth of $14.7 billion as of April 2019. He accumulated his wealth from his ownership stake in search giant Google. Schmidt is best known as chief executive of Google from 2001 to 2011, he is the current executive chairman of Google. Attended Yorktown High School, earned his B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University and MS/PhD from University of California, Berkeley. Schmidt started his career working for several IT companies like Byzromotti Design, Bell Labs, Zilog and Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. He also served as a member on the board of directors for Apple Inc.
Earnings & Financial Data
|
Date |
Category |
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
|
2016 |
Earnings |
Amount he received as equity when he stepped down as Google's CEO |
$100,000,000 |
|
2014 |
Earnings |
Annual earnings from Google (including $1.25 million base salary, bonuses and stock options) |
$108,000,000 |
|
2013 |
Asset |
Value of his 9,000-square-foot mansion in Hollywood |
$22,000,000 |
|
2008 |
Salary |
Earnings from other compensation |
$243,661 |
|
2007 |
Salary |
Earnings from other compensation |
$508,763 |
|
2005 |
Salary |
Earnings from other compensation |
$557,465 |
|
2003 |
Salary |
Base salary (along with Google founders), which continued until 2010 |
$1,000 |
|
2000 |
Salary |
Starting salary with Google (including annual performance bonus plus 14,331,703 shares of Class B common stock at $0.30 per share and 426,892 shares of Series C preferred stock at purchase price of $2.34) |
$250,000 |