Facebook spent $23.4 million on Mark Zuckerberg's personal security

The company attributed the increase to new COVID-19 protocols and additional protection during the election. Included in the figure was a pre-tax allowance of $10 million and an additional $13.4 million for the Facebook founder's personal security. As a result, Zuckerberg far eclipsed others on the list including the world's richest person, Jeff Bezos, who paid $1.6 million in personal security costs. Signalling just how cautious Facebook is, the company's COO Sheryl Sandberg was in second place with security worth $7.6 million in 2020.

The security expenses list includes 11 individuals in total. In third place is Google's Sundar Pichai ($5.4 million in protection costs), followed by Lyft co-founder and president John Zimmer ($2.06 million), Oracle's Larry Ellison ($1.71 million), Snap's Evan Spiegel ($1.67 million), Bezos, Salesforce boss Marc Benioff ($1.31 million), Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi ($849,000), Lyft CEO Logan Green ($599,000) and Apple's Tim Cook ($470,000).

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