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Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security

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Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security
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Jeff Bezos may be the world’s third-richest man, but his official salary is still less than six figures.



The 62-year-old Amazon founder is worth $254 billion, less than only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Yet during nearly his entire 25-year tenure as CEO of the top company on the Fortune 500, Bezos has received the same salary of $81,400 from Amazon—less than the average construction worker, according to the Bureau of Labor

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