Google’s Founders to Keep $1 Annual Salary

Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, enriched by a fivefold increase in the company’s shares, will keep their salaries at $1 this year, unchanged from 2005. Other top executives at the Mountain View, Calif.-based online search engine company will get a 43% pay raise.

Page, 33, and Brin, 32, are the company’s largest stockholders. They are tied for 16th on Forbes magazine’s list of the 400 richest Americans with fortunes estimated at $11 billion.