Another worker out-earned the boss.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is crazy wealthy. His net worth can soar in mind-blowing ways, like when Bezos became $1.5 billion richer in one day a few weeks ago, or when he earned $6 billion in just 20 minutes last April.
But Bezos was not the highest-paid employee last year in the company he runs. That title goes to Andrew Jassy, the executive in charge of Amazon Web Services, which runs the company’s cloud services operations, among other things. In 2016, Jassy earned roughly $179,000 in salary and a 401(k) match, plus $35.4 million in Amazon stock, Bloomberg reported. Jassy’s 2016 compensation was higher than Bezos’s and the highest of all of the Amazon executive earnings that were made public this week, per disclosure requirements.
Bezos, meanwhile, took home a salary of only $81,840 last year. He also received $1.6 million worth of security.