10 Highest Paid Female CEOs, Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Tops the List

Marissa Mayer, Yahoo
Current Remuneration: $42.1 million

This 40-year old woman has been serving as the CEO of Yahoo since 2012. Her package hike of upto 69pct in 2014 made her a part of the highest paid female CEO league. Her contributions to the company lies in decisions like aggressive acquisition strategy aimed in boosting mobile revenues or invest Yahoo's stake in Chinese e-commerce Alibaba. However, her groom in business policies happened in her 13-years of job experience at Google, before the Yahoo venture.
 

Carol Meyrowitz, TJX Companies
Current Remuneration:  $23.3 million

 The Fortune attributed her twelfth position in the Most Powerful Women league of 2014. She also serves as a part of The Boston Club’s corporate advisory board, the board of governors for The Chief Executives’ Club of Boston and the board of overseers for the Joslin Diabetes Center. Since her take over as CEO and director at the TJX companies, the leading off-price retailer in the United States–sales has tripled to nearly 60pct and stock hike extended to 300pct.

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