[trendia]

According to Wikipedia, he has $2b in wealth [0]. I have no idea whether $900,000 / year is high or low for someone of that net worth.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Spiegel#Personal_life

[yggda]

Apple Spends $220K on Tim Cook

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/3444424458x0x921...

[kgwgk]

And Facebook spends $5mn on security for its CEO and $1m for its CFO.

http://nypost.com/2016/04/28/facebook-has-spent-14-5m-on-zuc...

[giarc]

I would say that Zuckerberg is much more recognizable than Spiegel. Likely gets mobbed where ever he goes.

[calbear81]

You forget to Spiegel is engaged to Miranda Kerr, supermodel and is likely to be super visible outside of work.

[wayne]

$1.3M for its COO (Sheryl Sandberg), not CFO.

[kgwgk]

True, sloppy copying. I guess the CFO is safe as long as the stock performs well :-)

[rwmj]

Johnny Depp spends "Over $150,000/month on full-time security for his children" according to current revelations. So $900K/year for someone who's not very famous isn't unreasonable I suppose.

[jonknee]

Johnny Depp is also in a huge financial hole for irresponsible spending... Not a comparison.

[discodave]

It's easy to work out the cost of full time security. Lets say you need 2 people on rotation, they do 12 hours per day each (doable because they get to relax while client is at home etc.) then multiply by a reasonable salary for skilled labor like 70k then you get to 140k per year per person easily.

[skuhn]

$890k seems high in that for the previous year it was only $328k. I guess they had to triple everything for BCP.