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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/yahoo_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Yahoo's Mayer Has Huge Compensation Package' data-article-id='1057'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10271'>Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a huge pay package, although her company’s share price has slumped, reports Bloomberg News.</span> <span data-start-time='10271' data-end-time='18188'>She is the 23rd-highest paid executive of 200 on the Bloomberg Pay Index. </span> <span data-start-time='18188' data-end-time='31188'>Top executives often receive a pay, or compensation package that includes cash, with options to buy stock in their company, known as “stock options.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='31188' data-end-time='39708'>The shares of her company, Yahoo! Inc., are down more than nine percent since February 2014. </span> <span data-start-time='39708' data-end-time='46813'>But her stock options are still worth $14 million after the stock slide, according to Bloomberg. </span> <span data-start-time='46813' data-end-time='56313'>This is because the options given to her in 2014 are valued at the company’s share price 15 months earlier.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='56313' data-end-time='61521'>Stock and options are given to executives to motivate them. </span> <span data-start-time='61521' data-end-time='66938'>If the company does well, the stock and options are more valuable. </span> <span data-start-time='66938' data-end-time='71417'>Both Mayer and the other shareholders earn more.</span> <span data-start-time='71417' data-end-time='76021'>Stock options are often tied to performance goals.</span> <span data-start-time='76021' data-end-time='79979'>But Mayer’s stock option arrangement is unusual.</span> <span data-start-time='79979' data-end-time='88396'>Only one other CEO in the Bloomberg Pay Index “benefits from such a structure,” wrote Bloomberg.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/yahoo_image.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=4747 data-hint-location='0' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/what_does_slump_mean.m4a'>What does slump mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='to decrease suddenly and by a large amount'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/better_or_like_new_again.m4a'><span>better or like new again</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/to_decrease_suddenly_and_by_a_large_amount.m4a'><span>to decrease suddenly and by a large amount</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/to_move_forward.m4a'><span>to move forward</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/payment_given_for_doing_a_job.m4a'><span>payment given for doing a job</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=4748 data-hint-location='56313' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/what_is_the_purpose_of_giving_executives_stock_and_options.m4a'>What is the purpose of giving executives stock and options?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='motivation'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/scare_tactic.m4a'><span>scare tactic</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/bailout.m4a'><span>bailout</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/motivation.m4a'><span>motivation</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/punishment.m4a'><span>punishment</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=4749 data-hint-location='10271' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/mayer_is_the_23rdhighest__blank__executive_on_the_bloomberg_pay_index_.m4a'>Mayer is the 23rd-highest <span class='blank'>paid</span> executive on the Bloomberg Pay Index. </div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='paid'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/paid.m4a'><span>paid</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/educated.m4a'><span>educated</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/respected.m4a'><span>respected</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/679/debt.m4a'><span>debt</span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>
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