{"id":497607,"date":"2026-03-27T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497607\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:00:15","slug":"meta-is-set-to-pay-its-top-ai-executives-almost-a-billion-each-in-bonuses-if-they-hit-their-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/497607\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta is set to pay its top AI executives almost a billion EACH in bonuses if they hit their targets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six Meta<\/a> executives are set to get nearly a billion dollars each in bonuses as the company ambitiously moves forward with its artificial intelligence (AI<\/a>) goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite laying off 700 employees on Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> announced a new stock option plan for his top executives that could see them get up to $921 million each.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth, Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chief Operating Officer Javier Olivan have the highest chances of the massive payout, according to\u00a0Equilar, a compensation research firm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The lowest bonus would be awarded to the company’s Chief Financial Officer\u00a0Susan Li, whose stock option would be around $161 million, the research firm estimated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dina Powell McCormick, the president and vice chairman, and Chief Legal Officer Chris Mahoney, would also be eligible to receive stock options.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It would mark the first time since 2012 that Meta has given its executives stock options, The New York Times <\/a>reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This is a big bet,’ a Meta spokesperson told The Times. ‘These pay packages will not be realized unless Meta achieves massive future success, benefiting all of our shareholders.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The executives would be allowed to buy extra stock options if the company hits growth targets, The Times reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg laid off 700 employees on Wednesday, while simultaneously announcing a new stock option plan for six executives including Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth (pictured) that could see them get up to an almost $1 billion payout each<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chief Operating Officer Javier Olivan (left and right) will have the chance to gain a $921 million stock option\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the targets includes making Meta a $9 trillion company by 2031, a feat that would include boosting the company’s market value six-fold.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg has made it clear he’s on a mission to create a ‘superintelligence’ and the company is predicted to spend around $115 billion this year, with much of its budget going toward AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The billionaire, who has a net worth of $204.2 billion, has said that AI will ‘dramatically change the way that we work’ starting this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also admitted the change will see layoffs happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We\u2019re starting to see projects that used to require big teams now be accomplished by a single very talented person,’ he told investors in January, according to The Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg spent billions last year on a team of AI specialists to join the ranks of the company’s 78,000 employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hundreds were cut this week from the Reality Labs team, which worked on virtual reality and metaverse products, amounting to roughly ten to fifteen percent of the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they\u2019re in the best position to achieve their goals,’ a spokesperson told The Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Chief Financial Officer Susan Li ( will have the lowest option at $161 million<\/p>\n

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Dina Powell McCormick, the president and vice chairman, and Chief Legal Officer Chris Mahoney would also be eligible to receive stock options<\/p>\n

The change comes after Meta and Google were ordered to pay $3 million <\/a>to a woman whose social media addiction ruined her life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first-of-its-kind lawsuit saw the plaintiff, a 20-year-old referred to only as Kaley, accuse the tech giants of hooking her to their platforms.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After more than 40 hours of deliberation across nine days, California jurors decided the tech giants were negligent in the design or operation of their platforms.<\/p>\n

The jury also decided each company’s negligence was a substantial factor in causing harm to Kaley, who alleged her use of social media as a child addicted her to the technology and exacerbated her mental health struggles.<\/p>\n

Jurors also found that both companies knew or should have known their services posed a danger to minors, that they failed to adequately warn users of that danger and that a reasonable platform operator would have done so.<\/p>\n

Jurors assigned Meta 70 percent of the responsibility for Kaley’s harm – a $2.1 million share of the compensatory award – and YouTube the remaining 30 percent, or $900,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has reached out to Meta for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six Meta executives are set to get nearly a billion dollars each in bonuses as the company ambitiously…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,97,7203,1324,50,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-497607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-dailymail","tag-mark-zuckerberg","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}