When Amazon.com Inc. disclosed its workers’ median annual salary of $28,446 last week, the predominantly blue-collar nature of its workforce became clear.
The figure puts Amazon on par with chocolate manufacturer Hershey Co. , slightly above retailer Home Depot Inc. —and miles below the $240,430 median annual compensation at Facebook, according to the companies’ latest proxy statements.
Amazon is often compared to Silicon Valley tech giants like Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, but a vast logistical apparatus separates it from its tech peers.
Most of the roughly half-million employees at Amazon don’t make six figures while spending their workdays writing code. They unload trucks, drive forklifts and walk miles collecting products to fill orders—all for around the same pay as workers in other companies’ warehouses.
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