If we assume a reasonable bodyguard charges $100 an hour, and he has 2 bodyguards 16 hours a day (or 4 in 2 by 8 hours).

100 * 2 * 16 * 365 = $1.16 million

Count in that they need travel, food and hotels along with Bezos, and it’s not unreasonable or excessive.

And I would assume he has at some sort of protection around the clock, so that seems pretty low actually.

It does seem pretty low, but at some point I guess the lifestyle changes required become the constraint, not the money.

In comparison Zuckerberg spent $7.3m last year on security https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/15/facebook-...

More to the point, the $1.6M number is wholly irrelevant, an accounting detail due to the "security" issue. Bezos makes $1B-$10B/yr because he is a major shareholder in Amazon.

Probably includes private air travel and some bodyguards.

Not irrelevant because the news story is about direct compensation by the company to 2 different classes of employees. Factoring in stock ownership by Bezos is what's irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

I mean, I heard that Steve Job's salary was $1 as CEO before. Is it possible that by carefully following someone else's framing, you can nevertheless walk straight into irrelevance?