How Facebook spent a whopping $23 million on Mark Zuckerberg despite his one-dollar salary

April 14, 2021Updated: April 14, 2021 12:10 p.m. In this Oct. 25, 2019 photo Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Paley Center in New York.Mark Lennihan / Associated Press 2019 Facebook’s filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission revealed that $23 million was put toward founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s security. The tech behemoth spent a whopping $13 million on security detail to protect its CEO for “at his residences and during personal travel” on a private aircraft. Another $10 million, pre-tax, was allocated to cover additional costs related to his and his family’s personal security. That amount, according to the filing, was based on a comprehensive security program afforded to Zuckerberg to address “specific threats to their safety arising directly as a result of Mr. Zuckerberg’s position as our founder, CEO, Chairman, and controlling shareholder.” “We believe that Mr. Zuckerberg’s role puts him in a unique position: he is synonymous with Facebook and, as a result, negative sentiment regarding our company is directly associated with, and often transferred to, Mr. Zuckerberg,” the filing reads. In 2018 and 2019, Facebook invested $19 and $20 million, respectively, on Zuckerberg’s security. The sum went up by a few million dollars due to the…
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