the mega - sum includes salary , equity award .
yahoo 's new ceo marissa mayer is set to make $ 100 million over the next five years .
mayer to get close to $ 100 million ( and maybe more ) in overall compensation for yahoo ’s top job yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing by the sunnyvale , calif. , internet company .
ms. bartz was fired last fall after more than 2½ years at yahoo
while it is hard to make a direct comparison , ms. mayer 's predecessors , scott thompson and carol bartz , received compensation packages worth $ 27 million and $ 44.6 million , respectively , over several years .
one yahoo , which helped to revolutionize the web .
the amount , which is a whole lot more than what the last two yahoo ceos — carol bartz and scott thompson — were paid is , um , rather large .
( side note : mayer is already extraordinarily wealthy from her stint at google , where she was its 20th employee . )
new yahoo ceo marissa mayer will receive as much as $ 100 million in compensation , stock , bonus and retention awards over the next five years , according to a thursday regulatory filing .