Dissecting Marissa Mayer's $900,000-a-week Yahoo! Paycheck

Yahoo!'s share price more than tripled during Mayer's tenure

When a withered Yahoo! is absorbed by Verizon Communications in the next week or so, it will be the end of an era for one of the pioneering names of the internet age.

It will also conclude the remarkable five-year run of Yahoo!’s Chief Executive, Marissa Mayer, who was paid nearly a quarter of a billion dollars — a generous sum even by Silicon Valley’s lofty standards — while presiding over the company’s continued decline.

Mayer, now 42, was hailed as a saviour when she left Google for Yahoo! in 2012. But during her tenure, Yahoo! was hit by two of the