Yahoo president’s salary up, overall pay down

Co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang, who took over the top executive post from Terry Semel in June, got a $1 salary and no stock or new options. That figure is unchanged from the year earlier, Yahoo said.

Decker’s stock and stock option compensation, as valued by Yahoo, dropped from $14.6 million in 2006 to $13 million in 2007, the company said.

Yahoo President Sue Decker saw her salary, bonus, and incentive play payment increase from $1.35 million in 2006 to $1.76 million in 2007, but factoring in stock and options, her overall compensation declined, the company said in regulatory filing Tuesday.

Susan Decker

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The company also said Semel exercised stock options worth $37.8 million in 2007. Semel left Yahoo’s board on January 31, the day before Microsoft offered to acquire Yahoo.

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