The average Facebook employee makes about 5.5 times as much money as the average American, yet a huge majority of its users doubts the social media giant can keep their personal information safe.
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After the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, in which data of some 87 million Facebook users was harvested, a survey by the Ponemon Institute found that only 27% of respondents felt that Facebook is committed to protecting their personal information. Before the scandal, 79% of people agreed with the statement: “Facebook is committed to protecting the privacy of my personal information.”
The survey by U.S. think tank the Ponemon Institute, as reported by The Financial times, was based on a survey of 3,000 people. The survey was conducted one week after former Cambridge Analytica employee Christopher Wylie’s revelations about the data access. The prior reading on confidence was in 2017.
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Facebook’s employees had a median pay package of more than $240,000 last year, according to a proxy filed by the company, well above the $44,564 average salary for American workers, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Facebook salary calculations do not include conract workers or workers employed through a third party.
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg drew a salary of just $1 in 2017, but Facebook paid $8.8 million to cover the billionaire’s security and personal travel last year.
