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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I'm curious what is the lowest annual salary Amazon considers highly paid since Amazon writes that all the approximately 50,000 employees at the new headquarters will be highly paid.
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As I read the news, the
employees in the headquarters will be highly paid. But they didn't say that all the
workers in the headquarters will be employees of Amazon, as opposed to being, say, janitorial contractors.
As for what is the starting point for "highly paid," we don't know. But I'm pretty sure they would regard any union-negotiated salary to be
more than highly paid.
I'm currently reading
The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite. According to author Duff McDonald, Amazon has a higher percentage of MBA's than other tech companies because of emphasis on keeping down costs, including wages, for the non-elite part of the workforce. And, by the way, this April 2017 release is only $2.99
The scandal here isn't solely Amazon's fault. Local government should not be using my tax dollars to bribe the world's Amazons to locate here. Bidding wars, for tax incentives to be given a particular company, should be illegal nationwide (and hopefully beyond that - now there's something to add to NAFTA).