2. Marissa Mayer: $36.6 million - Tech's highest paid CEOs - CNNMoney

Tech's highest paid CEOs

This year's 12 top paid tech CEOs all make more than $15 million annually.

2. Marissa Mayer: $36.6 million

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  • Company: Yahoo
  • Cash compensation: $1.6 million
  • Stock and options: $35 million
  • Total compensation 1-yr. change: N/A

Mayer left Google (GOOG) to join Yahoo (YHOO) as its CEO, president and a board member in July of 2012. Her base salary was set at $1 million with an annual bonus target set at $2 million a year.

Though she only took home $6 million last year, Mayer reached No. 2 on this list because she was also offered a one-time retention award when she was hired, consisting of stock grants that could total $30 million when they vest over the next five years.

Total compensation is calculated as the sum of base salary, discretionary and performance-based cash bonuses, the grant-date fair value of stock and option awards during the fiscal year, and other compensation like benefits and perks. Equilar, an executive compensation research firm, prepared the data by looking at CEOs of technology companies that filed proxies by June 3, 2013.
See more on Marissa Mayer from Equilar.
  @KatieLobosco - Last updated June 18 2013 12:29 PM ET

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