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Yahoo鈥檚 new male CEO will make double Marissa Mayer鈥檚 salary

Thomas McInerney, who replaces outgoing CEO Marissa Mayer in running what's left of the tech-giant-turned-investment-fund, is set to make twice what his predecessor was paid, for what some observers are saying is a much easier job.

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Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference in San Francisco in 2015.

Following the pending sale of its core business to Verizon, Yahoo on Monday announced a plan for its future, naming board member Thomas McInerney to replace Marissa Mayer as the company's chief executive officer once the deal closes in July.聽

Yet, with a higher base salary and annual cash and stock bonus at least double the amount Ms. Mayer receives, Mr. McInerney鈥檚 compensation has drawn much controversy as the tech company transitions into an investment firm.

According to the offer letter made public on Monday, McInerney, the former executive of the internet media company InterActiveCorp that owns dating site Match.com, will receive , double the $1 million that Mayer currently takes home.聽

Yahoo, however, is expecting to pay him a total of $4 million in salary and cash bonus, which includes a performance-based annual incentive award of another $2 million and is 25 percent more than the $3 million Mayer will receive this year. In addition, McInerney can take home as much as $24 million in a long-term incentive award.

After nearly five years of leading Yahoo, Mayer is stepping down with a $23 million severance package, according to a proxy statement the company filed on Monday. With $69 million worth of unexercised stock options awarded to her and $97 million of Yahoo stock she already owns, Mayer is expected to have a net worth increase of , according to Fortune.聽

As Yahoo sells its technology and advertising business to Verizon for $4.8 billion, what's left of the once-most-popular-website will be called 鈥淎ltaba,鈥 and will become , according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Jan. 9. As 海角大神 reported in January:聽

鈥淭he name of the remaining part of the company (consisting of a stake in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan) is a combination of "alternate" and Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company with whom Yahoo partnered. It also reflects the new nature of the company, which would primarily include stakes in Alibaba (worth about $35 billion) as well as a smaller stake in Yahoo Japan (worth about $8.5 billion).鈥

Though sources told Fortune that McInerney will also be in charge of resolving 鈥渁 long and significant tail of Yahoo operating company liabilities,鈥 with no intention of selling these stocks or buying new ones, McInerney鈥檚 role of managing and monitoring the fund鈥檚 investments is 鈥渓ittle more than a glorified trustee,鈥 Fortune said.聽

The search engine company in recent months announced two major data breaches back in 2013 and 2014, which it said caused millions of its users鈥 personal information to be stolen. Mayer has taken fire for the breaches, losing her for 2016 and forfeiting at least $12 million in annual equity grant, according to the Mercury News. In the wake of the announcements, Yahoo was forced to cut its price by $350 million in its deal with Verizon.聽

While it is still unclear if Mayer will have a position at Verizon or Altaba, she will not be part of Altaba鈥檚 board.

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