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Everyone seems to only focus on the blue collar staff at Amazon. They're enot Amazon's main employees, developers are. The warehouse staff will be mostly repl

• ljf 8y ago
  Main employees - care to explain what you mean? * Largest number of people? * Largest share of total salary? * Most 'important'? -- I think for a long time they are going to have a larger number of blue collar workers than white collar. In in an automated future - who will look after and maintain the robots? Don't forget that they now also own Whole Foods that currently are 'people' heavy. Quote: While Amazon employees at its Seattle headquarters make an average salary of more than $110,000, according to Glassdoor data cited by the Seattle Times, the paper reported Thursday that the company’s median employee earned just $28,446 last year. That’s because the vast majority of Amazon’s 566,000 employees are not white-collar workers in Seattle but blue-collar workers toiling in the company’s 140 “fulfillment centers” across the country https://splinternews.com/a-staggering-number-of-amazons-employees-still-need-foo-1825389776 https://splinternews.com/a-staggering-number-of-amazons-empl...
• InitialLastName 8y ago
  > They're enot Amazon's main employees, developers are. According to [0] (page 30), Amazon's median compensation was $28,446. Where's your justification that either "main employees" are way less than half of Amazon's total employees or $30K/year is a normal developer salary. [0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518121077/d514607ddef14a.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312518...