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From https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hokr0c/mozilla_chair_pay_vs_firefox_market_share_2023/m4aca4j/:

Total 2022 pay: $6,903,089
Total 2023 pay: $6,260,072 - a $643,017 decrease
Base chair pay: $600,000
2023 chair bonuses and other incentives: $5,622,600

Sources:

For comparison, here are other executive salaries ($0 bonuses for each)

Executive name Title Total Pay (2023)
MARK SURMAN PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 715,143
J. BOB ALOTTA SVP, GLOBAL PROGRAMS 508,138
ANGELA PLOHMAN COO, SECRETARY & TREASURER 452,234
ASHLEY BOYD SVP, GLOBAL ADVOCACY 427,701
ZHILUN PANG DIRECTOR OF FINANCE 273,069
DAVID WALKER SENIOR COUNSEL 268,565
LAINIE DECOURSY DIRECTOR, ORG EFFECTIVENESS 267,028
JUAN BARANI SENIOR DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING 262,879
STEPHANIE WRIGHT SR PROGRAM MANAGER, MOZFEST 236,785
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This graph makes it look like increasing the salary of the chair significantly slowed down the loss of their users, was this what you intended by it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

From a page about geometric percent decreases, explaining that that kind of graph represents an unchanging loss of a percentage of the measured value every interval:

The sequence 100, 50, 25, 12.5, … is a geometric sequence. The common ratio is 1/2. To go from term to term, you keep multiplying by 1/2 (i.e., dividing by 2).

The graph of the sequence 100, 50, 25, 12.5, … is shown below: