Anthropic spent $2.75M guarding Dario Amodei—over 4x his base salary
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-30
Per Fortune and an IPO filing from Anthropic, the company spent $2.75M in 2025 on security for CEO Dario Amodei—more than 4x his $654,167 base salary and over 15% of his $17.96M total compensation, plus $97K of private jet travel counted as part of the security program.
- Another $1.29M went to protect president Daniela Amodei; the company has had 24/7 security since 2024.
- Peers: Meta spent $22.5M on Zuckerberg ($25.1M with jet), Alphabet $8.8M on Pichai, Tesla $4.8M on Musk, Nvidia $4M on Huang.
- Trend: 28.3% of S&P 500 companies provided CEO security in 2025, double 2021's 13.4%; Liferaft data shows digital threats against AI execs and data centers grew 7x in months, and a man was charged for throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's home.
The thread argues AI companies are becoming flashpoints for public sentiment, pushing executive risk from the digital world into the real one.
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