So what if they bring in money, big deal, why should they be paid $500K in total compensation when others will do ti for 1/5 that cost??????I know tons of people who fund raise and don’t get paid $400K per year, in fact they get $50K. Your comment is as bogus as it gets.

As far as I know FB has not turned profit You then do not know very much. FB is a private company and has NEVER released a P&L statement so there is no way for you or anyone else outside of top management to knwo what the company brings in. I will tell you this, if the have an IPO that values the company at $80BILLION or more then they certainly do bring in a profit and will continue to do so.

Also stock options increase the base salary of FB execs way over their base pay

ONLY if the options have avalue baby Einstein. Like I said above, if the stock options go to zero net worth then the stock options do nothing to base pay. Why don’t you Google MySapce.com and see hwo their stock options did. I Packard Bell computer, or any of a number of other hi tech companies where they handed out stock options and the went BK. And for the record, stock optiosn are ONLY given to insiders who start or develope a company to profitability, last time I checked San Diego State had been around for 110+ years, so the current Presdient did nothing to deserve a $500K comp package.

A “restricted stock unit” — of which Sandberg received $30 million worth last year — is not a stock option. It’s also not cash, but it’s not nearly as volatile.

She’s filthy rich and with a bare modicum of financial planning her grandchildren will be too — and bless her for it. A Cal State campus president is bourgeois prosperous but not even in the same financial league. You, I and John Hrabe all know that very well.

But it’s a free country. Believe all the lies you like.

In the case of FB the stock is worth millions, maybe billions right now, but in the real world the stock can also become worthless in less than a year or two. Look at MySpace.com, FB could be the next MySpace. Look at Apple, trading ta $5 a share in 1995 and 90 days away from BK, now worth $500 a share. Tech stocks are notorious for wild fluctuations.

The stock options work both ways, not always a value.

If you think comparing different people’s compensation without mentioning 99 percent of one person’s compensation is accurate and honest, well, more power to you.

I’m sure Ms. Sandberg is itching to trade places with Charles Reed.