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"Ah, to live the luxurious life. Facebook announced on Wednesday via its filing for an initial public offering (IPO) how the company fared in 2011, and not surprisingly, its employees racked up (and spent) big money last year.\nThe Facebook IPO provided details about the base salary of the team, including founder Mark Zuckerberg pulling in a salary of $483,333, plus a $220,500 bonus and \u201Cother compensation\u201D worth $783,529. \nThe filing noted that he spent nearly $700,000 for costs related to private plane use \"chartered in connection with his comprehensive security program and on which family and friends flew during 2011.\" That includes passenger fees, fuel, crew and catering costs. Another $90,850 of that amount was for \u201Ccosts related to estate and financial planning.\u201D\nExecutives were under fire several years ago amid the bank bailout crisis for spending top dollar on chartering private planes. But some high-paid executives \u2014 including Steve Jobs \u2014 still made some room for traveling in luxury. In fact, flying private was one of the few luxuries the Apple founder afforded himself. \n\nSEE ALSO: Facebook IPO Filing Flings Open the Social Network Kimono \nBut Zuckerberg wasn't the highest paid Facebook employee during 2011. In fact, COO Sheryl Sandberg \u2014 who earned a base salary of $300,000 \u2014 raked in $30.87 million last year.\nHowever, if Facebook manages to raise this capital, it will be on a shortlist of the biggest tech IPOs of all time, and Zuckerberg\u2019s net worth will skyrocket since he owns 28.4% of the company. In fact, Zuckerberg\u2019s salary will fall to $1 annually starting Jan. 1, 2013.\nFacebook \u2014 which earned $1 billion on sales of $3.7 billion in 2011 \u2014 now has 845 million active users on the site, up from the estimated 800 million using the site back in September. The company also noted that 250 million photos are uploaded daily and 2.7 billion likes and comments are made each day. Overall, there are a whopping 100 billion friendships on the site.\nThe full S-1 filing is available here.\nThumbnail courtesy of wwwes.\n\nFacebook Files for $5 Billion IPO\nFacebook IPO Reveals How It Made $3.71 Billion in 2011\n10 Giant Things Less Valuable Than Facebook\nZuckerberg to Potential Shareholders: Facebook Is on a Social Mission\nFacebook: Zynga Generates 12% of Our Revenue and We Need Them\nSheryl Sandberg Was Facebook\u2019s Best-Paid Employee in 2011\n\nBONUS: Facebook's Road to IPO\n\n\n10 Giant Things Less Valuable Than Facebook\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. The Economy of Qatar\n\nThe country of Qatar's GDP adds up to about $98 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, thinkingjosh\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. 6.3 Months Worth of Fast Food in the U.S.\n\nAccording to a survey by Mint, Americans spend an average of $51.79 on fast food per month. Multiply that by the population (307,006,550) and you discover that Americans spend $15,899,869,225 per month on fast food. Multiply that by 6.25 months and you reach $99,374,182,653.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Like_the_Grand_Canyon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. The Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment for 6 Years\n\nBreast cancer costs the U.S. $16.5 billion per year. Multiply that number by six years and you reach $99 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Jason Pier in DC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. 120 Eiffel Towers\n\nNational Geographic's TV show Pricing the Priceless estimates that rebuilding the Eiffel Tower today would cost $480 million plus the cost of land, another $350 million. Therefore, you'd be able to build 120 Eiffel Towers for $99.6 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Stuck in Customs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Brazil's 2011 Travel and Tourism Budget\n\nBrazil's travel and tourism budget for 2011 was about R$129.6 billion (Brazilian reals), which factors to $74.2 billion U.S. dollars.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Rodrigo_Soldon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. The World's Entire Coffee Industry\n\nThe global coffee industry is estimated to be worth $100 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, dongga BS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7. 2.5 Olympic Games\n\nOne of the most expensive Olympics in history, the Beijing games cost $40 billion. For $100 billion, you could throw 2.5 Olympics games at that cost.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, \u56E7-Jean-\u56E7\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8. The Entire Cleanup of Hurricane Katrina -- And Then Some\n\nHurricane Katrina cost $81 billion in damages. Not to mention, the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan cost $100 billion.\nImage courtesy of Flickr, Tidewater Muse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9. The Gulf War\n\nAt $96 billion, the cost of the entire Gulf War comes in under Facebook's valuation.\nImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10. 50 Naval Submarines\n\nU.S. Navy submarines cost an estimated $2 billion each to build.\nImage courtesy of Wikimedia Commons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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