Poor pay? Amazon has created tons and tons of millionaires. If you work 15 years at your local retail job - you are lucky to own a house. If you worked 15 years at amazon as an engineer - you can retire in a very nice house. The stock performance has been very good over 15 years.
"At Amazon, a Seattle operations engineer on an $840k salary had his/her renewal application denied in February."
"a level III program manager in Seattle earning a salary of $1.3m"
The article was mixing up compensation elements, but people are paid well above US average wage at Amazon.
https://news.efinancialcareers.com/us-en/3003798/highest-pay...