In 2025, Meta’s aggressive hiring spree has seen the company extend offers to AI experts that rival the pay of professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs—and even Zuckerberg himself. Top-tier AI researchers at Meta are reportedly being offered total compensation packages of up to $300m over four years, with some initial year earnings exceeding $100m.
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Mark Zuckerberg is determined to build an AI superteam—and he’s poaching from Sam Altman with multimillion-dollar pay packages
All of these compensation packages far exceed Zuckerberg’s own base salary, which is a symbolic $1, and Zuckerberg does not receive bonus compensation or stock awards. His perks include a pre-tax allowance for personal security, which came to $14 million in 2024, personal use of private aircraft, which came to roughly $2.6 million in 2024, and his massive horde of Facebook stock, which puts him at number two on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with a net worth of $256 billion. As of 2024, Zuckerberg stood to make $700 million per year from Meta dividend payments alone.
