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1. Who is asking for $100/hr at this level?

2. Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help.

What a strange comment imo. I can’t take the ‘everything will go up!’ stance seriously while higher ups are buying 10 houses and private jets. The wage gap is atrocious.

By the way, Switzerland’s GDP is 748 billion vs the United States’ 20.94 trillion. Comparing them like that is meaningless and silly.

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drstewart3y ago

>Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help

Can you show your work here? Assume Amazon executives cut their salaries to 0, how much extra would they be able to pay workers?

tjpnz3y ago

Everyone would get 213 dollars a year extra if just their CEO didn't receive any compensation. Amazon employs approximately 1 million people in the United States and Andy Jassy received 213 million total comp in 2021.

kristjansson3y ago

That ~200m (really 61000 shares) vests over 10 years though. So really ~20 bucks per employee per year.

ekianjo3y ago

> Everyone would get 213 dollars a year extra if just their CEO didn't receive any compensation.

Wow, then they can buy an extra starbucks coffee now and then. That would surely change their life.

umanwizard3y ago

So, practically none.

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zeroonetwothree3y ago

It’s something like $300-1000/yr more if we average over all Amazon employees, depending on who counts as “executives”.

If the high pay is truly attracting better performers (which I admit is unlikely) they could easily be benefiting the company’s workers a larger amount by increasing demand. Or maybe not and they are kinda useless , but in any case the total cost isn’t that high.

NovemberWhiskey3y ago

That doesn't pass the sniff test.

Amazon allegedly has about 1.6 million employees. Assuming that the "executive" class is a trivially small number of them, and that the average employee works say 2,000 hours per year, you're suggesting that the cost to Amazon of paying those executives is somewhere between $960B and $3.2T per year.

The high end of that estimate is about one fifth of the total earned income for the entire U.S. economy.

ekianjo3y ago

> 1. Who is asking for $100/hr at this level?

Why not? If you can double every few years eventually you will get to 100 dollars. And if you claim that everyone needs to make decent wages, who is to define what "decent" is supposed to be? People will always be asking for more, never less.

> 2. Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help.

Even if CEOs gave up their whole salary tomorrow, it would not change the pay of people working in very large companies with dozens of thousands or hundred of thousands of employees.

somehnguyOP3y ago

> Why not? If you can double every few years eventually you will get to 100 dollars.

Huh? That isn’t reasonable at all and I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith because of it.

ekianjo3y ago

With inflation 100 dollars will become very reasonable soon enough.

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drstewart3y ago

>Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help

Can you show your work here? Assume Amazon executives cut their salaries to 0, how much extra would they be able to pay workers?

tjpnz3y ago

kristjansson3y ago

That ~200m (really 61000 shares) vests over 10 years though. So really ~20 bucks per employee per year.

ekianjo3y ago

> Everyone would get 213 dollars a year extra if just their CEO didn't receive any compensation.

Wow, then they can buy an extra starbucks coffee now and then. That would surely change their life.

umanwizard3y ago

So, practically none.

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zeroonetwothree3y ago

It’s something like $300-1000/yr more if we average over all Amazon employees, depending on who counts as “executives”.

NovemberWhiskey3y ago

That doesn't pass the sniff test.

The high end of that estimate is about one fifth of the total earned income for the entire U.S. economy.

ekianjo3y ago

> 1. Who is asking for $100/hr at this level?

> 2. Maybe CEOs and executives don’t need to pay themselves such absurd salaries, that would probably help.

Even if CEOs gave up their whole salary tomorrow, it would not change the pay of people working in very large companies with dozens of thousands or hundred of thousands of employees.

somehnguyOP3y ago

> Why not? If you can double every few years eventually you will get to 100 dollars.

Huh? That isn’t reasonable at all and I don’t think you’re arguing in good faith because of it.

ekianjo3y ago

With inflation 100 dollars will become very reasonable soon enough.

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