[influx]

"In 2018 she received a total of $2,458,350 in compensation from Mozilla, which represents a 400% payrise since 2008.[14] On the same period, Firefox marketshare was down 85%. When asked about her salary she stated "I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market. Meaning that competitive roles elsewhere were paying about 5 times as much. That's too big a discount to ask people and their families to commit to."

In 2020, after returning to the position of CEO, her salary had risen to over $3 million. In the same year the Mozilla Corporation laid off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic."

[ekianjo]

> I learned that my pay was about an 80% discount to market.

And your performance is actually much worse than 80% discount in other companies. Any CEO with such results would be fired in 2 years anywhere else.

> Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic.

Sure, always blame external factors for your own incompetence. That's what politicians do every morning during breakfast.

[LudwigNagasena]

What market is she talking about? Does the market for the executives of declining browsers that lost their market share and have no clear prospects command such wages?

[jiggawatts]

I've been offered over 2x as much as her to drive a browser into the ground, but I rejected the offer because my family wouldn't accept the shame of accepting such a meagre offer. /s

[laweijfmvo]

> What market is she talking about?

I guess that would be the CEOs of Google (Chrome), Microsoft (Edge), and Apple (Safari)...

[solarkraft]

That would be hilarious

[fleddr]

There must be something in the water in California.

Mozilla excessively prides itself on progressive signaling, whilst internally running the place like the most cruel neoliberal companies out there.

[Ekaros]

Isn't that the typical way of these companies signal hell out and then be fully neoliberal. Signalling after all is pretty cheap. Or at best couple million even for big companies.

[SllX]

The problem is that we took the LSD out of the water.

[the_only_law]

> Mozilla excessively prides itself on progressive signaling, whilst internally running the place like the most cruel neoliberal companies out there.

Isn’t this just most companies?

[fleddr]

Definitely, this is just an extreme version of it.

[jjulius]

This alone makes me want to stop using it. I won't, because the alternatives are worse, but goddamnit that's gross.

[artdigital]

I wanted to support firefox but when I first read this a whil eback it made me lose all sympathy and support for Mozilla. As long as she's the head, I won't be using their services and products

[djbusby]

Why not move to a job that pays more if you're qualified? I hate that CEO comp goes up just "because market" but staff wages are stagnant or lost entirely.

[pseudalopex]

She said her pay was 80% below market. Not is. Why move if you can stay and get paid the same?