Search Engine Billionaires & Yahoo’s Decker Boosts Her Salary

Forbes is out with the latest billionaires list, and Google executives are well represented. Plus, Yahoo president Susan Decker saw a 63-percent increase in her salary, with a 29-percent bonus increase from last year.

Gary Price posted a link to the Forbes billionaires lists, which includes several search faces such as Bill Gates of Microsoft at number three with $58.0 billion and Steve Ballmer at number 43 with $15 billion. As for Googlers, Sergey Brin ranks at number 32 with $18.7 billion, Larry Page at number 33 with $18.6 billion, and CEO Eric Schmidt was ranked 142 with $6.6 billion.

paidContent.org reports, in other news, that Yahoo president Susan Decker has seen a 63% raise, earning $815,000 up from $500,000 last year. Plus, Decker’s bonus increased almost 30% to $1.1 million. Note, however, that Decker’s increase is from taking over the president’s position. Previously, she was Yahoo’s CFO. Blake Jorgensen, Yahoo’s new CFO’s, took Decker’s old salary of $500,000 and saw a bonus of $405,000 in 2007.

Back to the billionaires list, here are more search billionaires:

  • David Filo of Yahoo is worth $2.5 billion and ranks in at number 462
  • Jerry Yang of Yahoo: worth $2.3 billion and ranking at number 524
  • Omid Kordestani of Google: worth $2.2 billion and ranking number 553
  • Barry Diller of IAC (Ask.com): worth $1.3 billion and ranking number 897

Related Topics: Business Issues: General | Yahoo: Business Issues | Yahoo: Employees


About The Author: is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here.


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