I used to work in fintech, and yes, the pay was substantially better there (I'm at Google now - I took a pay cut to go across). Likewise, I had an offer from A

I used to work in fintech, and yes, the pay was substantially better there (I'm at Google now - I took a pay cut to go across). Likewise, I had an offer from Amazon around the same time as Google's offer - which was actually quite a bit higher. So from my own experience, and from friends, Amazon does indeed pay substantially more than Google. I've heard other tech is sightly higher - however, I didn't go to Google for the pay (although I wouldn't say no to competitive pay, haha), but there were other drivers for me (work/life balance etc.).