TCI is not even close for median "salary". 300k is way too high. This may be right for median total compensation for engineers (factoring in stock appreciation), which is salary+bonus+stock, but the company has a lot of other lower paying job functions. Overall, I suspect the 300k median is not accurate.

Levels.fyi tends to be in the right ballpark. However, the equity number has to be understood in that Google gives out $X RSUs vested over 4 years and the stock number there factors in stock growth, which can vary a lot by person and hire date.

The L5 salary on levels.fyi is near the upper end of the range, at around $196k in MTV. The engineering ladder is very lopsided, with most people being in the L3-L5 range.

I am a longtime Googler, not impacted by layoffs.

I also dispute all the other comments here that Googlers are overpaid. Now, I certainly can only speak from what I see. In my experience, Googlers tend to work very hard, including extra hours on nights and weekends. Expectations are very high, and unlike many other companies, the engineers don't get a lot of top-down direction, so often have to figure out what they work on by themselves.