In 2020 Amazon employees earned $80 billion, plus $11 billion in benefits and payroll taxes, totalling $91 billion.
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Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
Reasoning
Total employee earnings and benefits are internal figures not routinely broken out publicly.
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Jeff Bezos, “In 2020 Amazon employees earned $80 billion, plus $11 billion in benefits and payroll taxes, totalling $91 billion.” (said 15 April 2021). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_5f2b93fe1ac7, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5f2b93fe1ac7
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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