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Poor pay? Amazon has created tons and tons of millionaires. If you work 15 years at your local retail job - you are lucky to own a house. If you worked 15 years
by thoraway1010 6y ago
Poor pay? Amazon has created tons and tons of millionaires. If you work 15 years at your local retail job - you are lucky to own a house. If you worked 15 years at amazon as an engineer - you can retire in a very nice house. The stock performance has been very good over 15 years.
"At Amazon, a Seattle operations engineer on an $840k salary had his/her renewal application denied in February."
"a level III program manager in Seattle earning a salary of $1.3m"
The article was mixing up compensation elements, but people are paid well above US average wage at Amazon.
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/3003798/highest-paying-h1b-visa-salaries-denied https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/3003798/highest-pay...
- _bxg1 6y agoI felt I made it clear, but by "average" I meant "average for equivalent roles in the tech industry".
- marcinzm 6y agoAmazon pays more than everyone except the largest tech companies and some unicorn startups. You have a very distorted view of what the tech industry actually pays.
- thoraway1010 6y agoSeriously, there are help desk techs and IT techs in ohio and idaho who would think $1.2 million per year was fine money. These are NOT poorly compensated folks. They may be badly treated though - I could believe that.