Google made $18000000000 profit last year. It could pay employees out of cash revenue, not out of stock prices if it wanted. I don't know about Google in parti

Google made $18000000000 profit last year. It could pay employees out of cash revenue, not out of stock prices if it wanted. I don't know about Google in particular but I think RSUs are generally issued in terms of an amount of stock, not a dollar amount. As the share price goes down then Google becomes less competitive against companies with a more stable stock price who also issue RSUs.