Amazon Web Services salaries: See how much engineers, analysts, and more at the cloud giant were pai
- Amazon is known for its e-commerce business, but it makes most of its profit selling server space.
- Hiring skyrocketed to meet pandemic demand, though Amazon has cut back now that growth is slowing.
- See how much Amazon paid employees across the AWS business in 2022.
Amazon Web Services' hiring has hit a low point.
Last year, Amazon's cloud business was on a hiring spree as it raced to keep up with the pandemic-fueled demand for its services. This month, AWS had just over 1,500 open roles listed on its jobs site, a significant decrease from the 32,000 positions it was looking to fill in July of 2022. Roughly half of the available jobs are in operations, IT, and support engineering. Fortune in early May reported that AWS is beginning to restrict managers' ability to hire.
Revenue for AWS in the first quarter of 2023 increased 16% from the prior-year period, its lowest growth rate on record. The entire cloud computing industry is dealing with a revenue slowdown, but as the largest cloud provider, AWS is seeing a more dramatic decrease on paper than its key competitors, Microsoft and Google.
AWS was also impacted by Amazon's layoffs in recent months. The company has cut 27,000 jobs since November. A round of layoffs announced in March included cuts at AWS. Amazon said in its first-quarter earnings report that it had incurred $470 million in severance costs, $270 million of which came from AWS.
Although AWS does not share how much it pays employees, it is required to disclose salary offers in work-visa applications submitted to the US Office of Foreign Labor Certification. Insider combed data from that office, which authorizes hiring non-US employees and then publicly releases the data.
Notably, the data does not include stock grants that can significantly increase total compensation, but it is a valuable guide to what AWS pays in base salary for a variety of positions. The included data covers 2022, before Amazon initiated cost-cutting measures, and may not be reflective of what the company would pay today. Insider sorted through the hundreds of disclosed salaries that represent engineers, product managers, and more, to find out what the cloud giant was paying employees last year.
The analyzed salaries mainly represent workers in Washington state, Texas and California. The broad categories are taken from filings by the Office of Foreign Labor Certification.
When you're done checking out the data below, take a look at Insider's Big Tech salary database to see how much Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and other companies pay their workers.
Here's a breakdown of what AWS paid its developers, product managers, analysts, and other key roles through the end of 2022:
Developers: AWS software and system engineers are paid up to $261,000, including senior software development managers.
- IT App Development Engineer I: $67,995 to $135,000
- IT App Development Engineer II: $91,874 to $150,000
- Manager II, Software Development: $127,629 to $175,000
- Manager III, Software Development: $130,894 to $185,000
- Software Development Engineer I: $59,717 to $180,000
- Software Development Engineer II: $87,485 to $225,000
- Software Development Engineer III: $109,138 to $261,500
- System Development Engineer II: $90,397 to $174,800
Engineers: AWS engineers in security, enterprise, and business are paid up to $205,800.
- Security Engineer I: $67,392 to $150,000
- Enterprise Act Engineer I: $67,995 to $128,160
- Enterprise Act Engineer II: $75,629 to $185,000
- Enterprise Act Engineer III: $89,045 to $205,800
- Technical Business Developer III: $82,181 to $200,000
Support engineers: The highest-paid support engineer at AWS makes up to $160,000 and focuses on cloud.
- Support Engineer I — External: $58,094 to $119,350
- Support Engineer II — External: $71,573 to $160,000
- Support Engineer III: $79,914 to $104,291
- Cloud Support Engineer II: $102,700 to $148,000
Data science and engineers: A level II data engineer at AWS earns as much as $230,000.
- Data Engineer I: $58,094 to $150,000
- Data Engineer II: $76,856 to $170,000
- Data Scientist II: $70,512 to $185,000
- Manager III, Data Engineering: $104,832 to $230,000
Scientists: A level III scientist at AWS earns up to $206,600.
- Applied Scientist I: $81,307 to $182,000
- Applied Scientist II: $88,504 to $206,600
- Applied Scientist III: $117,520 to $202,600
Program and product managers: The highest-paid program manager is a level II and earns up to $178,700.
- Program Manager II: $71,469 to $140,000
- Product Manager II: $89,107 to $172,000
- Product Manager III - Technical - MBA: $99,008 to $144,000
- Technical Program Manager II: $75,858 to $178,700
- Technical Program Manager III: $140,920 to $160,000
Solutions architects: AWS solutions architects can make as much as $200,000.
- Solutions Architect I: $64,064 to $115,830
- Solutions Architect II: $85,842 to $200,000
- Solutions Architect III: $94,806 to $198,000
Professional services: The highest-paid professional services employee at AWS makes up to $222,000.
- Professional Services I: $50,586 to $160,000
- Professional Services II: $69,514 to $195,000
- Professional Services III: $94,806 to $222,000
Business analysts: An AWS engineer who focuses on business intelligence is paid up to $160,000.
- Business Analyst I: $45,282 to $95,000
- Business Analyst II: $70,005 to $125,000
- Business Intelligence Engineer I: $45,282 to $145,000
- Business Intelligence Engineer II: $67,995 to $160,000
Sales analysts and operations: The highest-paid sales operations employee makes as much as $199,000.
- Sales Analyst I: $55,869 to $85,000
- Sales Operations I: $54,371 to $105,000
- Sales Operations II: $68,411 to $169,500
- Sales Operations III: $104,374 to $199,000
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