A big factor in the drop was a stock award of slightly less than $10 million for the most recently ended year, down 13.7 percent from $11.6 million a year earlier. And across the board pay in three of four major compensation categories dropped for each as stock and option awards, along with non-equity incentive compensation, all trended downward Compensation for four top Intuit executives dropped for the year ended July 31. The next largest drop was 13.2 percent for CFO Neil Williams, who is retiring in January from a position he has held since January 2008. In his last full year, earned $6.9 million last year, down from $7.9 million in 2016. Sasan Goodarzi, EVP of the 's small business group, received $9.4 million, down 8.2 percent from $10.2 million the prior year. Dan Wernikoff, EVP of the TurboTax business, had $9.6 million in compensation last year, off 5 percent from $10.1 million. Chief technology officer Tayloe Stansbury was given $6.9 million last year, a 6.5-percent drop from $7.3 million in fiscal 2016.