The COO at Yahoo, Henrique de Castro will be getting $20 million of stock bonus, for working with company more that a year. According to a filing with the SEC, he earned $39.2 million in 2012 when he joined the company as a cash and stock.
De castro joined Yahoo in october 2012, after leaving Google and also negotiated a pay of $62 million over four years, with $36 million of that coming in stock awards over three years.
De Castro worked for the company for 15 months, and now that he is leaving, he is entitled to “the severance benefits provided for in his Employment Offer Letter,” Yahoo says. Those benefits will be having “All his existing stock vests at once”, and “$20 million in stock.”