Women CEOs Who Earn Whopping Salaries

2. Marissa Mayer
President and CEO, Yahoo!
Salary: $36,620,000

The Yahoo President and CEO is ranked second among women CEOs with the highest salaries with a package of $36,620,000.

She was an ex-Google employee and has been in the tech industry for about 13 years. She was the first ever female engineer to join Google after completing university. As Google climbed the fortune ladder, Marissa too experienced rapid growth and change. She left Google as the Vice President of location and local services, a section in charge for products such as Google Maps. She has a net worth of approximately $300 million.

3. Irene Rosenfeld
Chairman and CFO, Mondelez International
Salary: $28,810,000

Rosenfeld has been associated with the food and beverage industry since about 30 long years. She first joined the New York based Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency and later was employed at General Foods in consumer research.

Rosenfeld was named as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Frito-Lay in the year 2004, which is a division of PepsiCo. While at the company she focused on promoting healthy products and was later selected as the Chief Executive Officer of Kraft Foods in June 2006.

With a package of $28,810,000 Irene Rosenfeld ranks third in the list.

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