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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jameskraus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:27AM (#24564045)
This really isn't crazy compensation given the role and the industry. There are many execs making orders of magnitude more [0]. I know there is a bit of sticker-shock for people who haven't heard about top-level compensation, but it's not unheard of, just usually unspoken.

https://usanewssite.com/news/the-unconventional-ceo-of-33-3-...

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by lightgreen on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:30AM (#24564076)
It is crazy that the compensation is not tied to metrics. If Firefox at least kept the market share, that would be OK.
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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jameskraus on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:50AM (#24564211)
The source doesn't say this isn't tied to metrics. The base salary is only $450k per year [0]. All the rest of the comp is paid out in other ways. I would wager that there are significant compensation thresholds that are tied to metrics (but we, as outsiders, couldn't know what they are or if they are being hit).

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by luckylion on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @04:48AM (#24564616)
> There are many execs making orders of magnitude more

For that kind of negative growth? No, of course not.

> In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2019, for example, Snowflake had revenue of $96.7 million. A year later that number was $264.7 million, or growth of around 150% at scale.

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