Amazon disclosed that
its median worker compensation is $ 28,446, complying with a new law that requires companies to disclose the figure
A one percentage point increase in the growth rate of productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in
median worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory worker compensation.
A focus from Amazon on educating lower - level employees is not too surprising when considering this salary tidbit:
the median worker compensation at Amazon is a little over $ 28,000, according to a Bloomberg report.
Not exact matches
The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced this week that public companies will be required to disclose the ratio of their CEO's annual total
compensation paid to that of a
median worker (e.g. 200 to one).
Other
compensation consultants and lawyers have commented on the new CEO to
median worker pay ratio.
Companies with CEOs whose
compensation is more than 100 times the
median pay of all of their
workers must pay an extra 10 % surcharge on top of Portland's existing 2.2 % business income tax.
If the ratio of the mean to
median worker's hourly
compensation in 2016 had been the same as it was in 1973, and mean
compensation remained at its 2016 level, the
median worker's pay would have been around 33 % higher.
These results suggest that there is substantial linkage between productivity and
median compensation (even the strong linkage view can not be rejected), and that there is a significant degree of linkage between productivity and production / nonsupervisory
worker compensation.
At a $ 131 billion net worth, Bezos is the richest human on the planet, averaging annual
compensation of $ 6.5 billion a year in the 20 years since Amazon debuted on the public markets — that maths out to 230,000 times the
median pay of Amazon
workers.
Since the mid-1970s, hourly
compensation for the
median worker has grown just 10 percent, even though
workers are 80 percent more productive today than they were in 1975.