--- title: Amazon's Highest Paid Employee Last Year Was Not Jeff Bezos description: Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be the world's second richest man, but he's not his company's highest paid employee. Andrew Jassy, head of Amazon Web Services, made the most money in 2016. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2017-04-13T15:24:57.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T05:39:51.000Z' section: Business tags: - Amazon - Jeff Bezos - rich - Tech - Warren Buffett - Wealth word_count: 248 canonical: https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Trump Holds Summit With Technology Industry Leaders](https://img.money.com/2017/04/jeffbezosamazonsalary-em-629849300.jpg) *Amazon founder and chief executive officer Jeff Bezos.* 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](https://money.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-net-worth/) 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](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-12/amazon-web-service-head-jassy-reaps-35-4-million-in-record-year). 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. But no one should be worried about Bezos hurting for cash. He is Amazon's largest shareholder, and his wealth has risen swiftly with the price of Amazon's stock. As of mid-March 2017, Bezos was the [world's third-richest man](https://money.com/forbes-billionaires-world-list-2017/), according to [*Forbes*](https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/#4eeace2251c7), with a net worth of around $73 billion, behind only Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Since then, Amazon shares have continued on a tear—[up 50% in 12 months](http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/amazon-ceo-now-second-richest-man-in-world-after-stock-surge-1001879657-1001879657)—pushing Bezos ahead of Buffett to #2 on the list. At last check, Bezos was worth [$76.9 billion](https://www.forbes.com/profile/jeff-bezos/), putting him ahead of Buffett ([$74.1 billion](https://www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett/)) and behind only Gates ([$86.7 billion](https://www.forbes.com/profile/bill-gates/)), according to *Forbes'* estimates. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Entrepreneurship", "item": "https://money.com/entrepreneurship/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Amazon's Highest Paid Employee Last Year Was Not Jeff Bezos" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/", "name": "Amazon's Highest Paid Employee Last Year Was Not Jeff Bezos", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-04-13T15:24:57.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:39:51.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Amazon's Highest Paid Employee Last Year Was Not Jeff Bezos", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/04/jeffbezosamazonsalary-em-629849300.jpg", "width": 3636, "height": 2424, "caption": "Trump Holds Summit With Technology Industry Leaders" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-04-13T15:24:57.000Z", "description": "Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be the world's second richest man, but he's not his company's highest paid employee. Andrew Jassy, head of Amazon Web Services, made the most money in 2016.", "abstract": "Amazon's Jeff Bezos may be the world's second richest man, but he's not his company's highest paid employee. Andrew Jassy, head of Amazon Web Services, made the most money in 2016.", "@id": "https://money.com/jeff-bezos-wealth-amazon-highest-paid-worker/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:39:51.000Z", "wordCount": 248, "keywords": [ "Amazon", "Jeff Bezos", "rich", "Tech", "Warren Buffett", "Wealth" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Business", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Entrepreneurship", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship" ] } ] } ] } ```