I'm very aware with how much people can make per year in the US. A principal engineer that is tenured will be on around 550K a year. An HR person that administ

I'm very aware with how much people can make per year in the US. A principal engineer that is tenured will be on around 550K a year. An HR person that administers PIPs is at most L6 and unlikely to be on more than 250K a year. 6 years in Amazon means a salary was low, not that it was high. Managing people doesn't mean anything, you can earn less than $100K TC in Seattle and be managing people. Additionally, compensation has been reworked a lot 2 years ago to increase a lot the cap on salary and reduce a stocks.