USA TODAY: Seems like the whole world knows Mark Zuckerberg got $2.3 billion after Facebook went public last May. Turns out Sheryl Sandberg, an executive he lured away from Internet giant Google, did pretty well, too.
Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, gained $821 million from shares that vested in 2012 and received another $25.6 million in stock, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook said in a late Friday proxy filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. That’s on top of a $328,000 salary and $277,000 bonus.
Sandberg, 43, has been COO since March 2008 and previously was vice president for global sales at Mountain View, Calif.-based Google. The 2012 stock gains and compensation package vaulted Sandberg to the top of an almost all-male club of highly compensated executives. She co-authored the recently published best seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead… (more)
