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		massysett on May 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food ... Just to come up with a ballpark, I pulled some numbers from Google. Perhaps Amazon has 700,000 warehouse workers in the United States. CEO Andy Jassy's total compensation package in 2021 was about $212 million, though it dropped to $1.3 million the next year. So $212 million divided by 700,000 is about $303 for a warehouse employee for one year. Not close to enough to get anyone off food stamps.

hoosieree on May 22, 2024 [–]

Headline says 1/3 of those 700k are on food stamps. Would an extra $900/year be enough?

sethammons on May 23, 2024 | [–]

That's $40/wk - when we were that poor, that would have helped but not solved our food needs

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