Seattle’s thriving tech hub has earned it the reputation as a sort of Silicon Valley of the Pacific Northwest in recent years, owing in large part to the growth of cloud computing. Startups and tech giants alike have flocked to the Seattle area to scoop up talent churning out of the creator and ...
Last month, Bloomberg reported that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has amassed a fortune worth $150 billion. That is the largest amount in modern history, and mind-boggling however you look at it. Bezos is the only hecto-billionaire on the planet. He is worth two million times more than the average A...
In a recent Op-Ed, Seattle native Timothy Egan wrote that President Trump has “declared war on Amazon, the nation’s second most valuable company.” He pointed out the irony of going after a company that is creating more jobs than all but a handful of American states. And of course, almost e...
Amazon reports that its median employee pay last year was $28,446.
That data made public on Wednesday in the company's annual report, is a reminder that even though tech workers and business managers at Amazon headquarters earn more than $100,000, across most of the country, Amazon offers blue-co...
On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to companies over workers, ruling that employers are not obligated to pay workers for extra time spent in security checks at the end of their shifts. The case emerged from workers in an Amazon.com Inc. warehousing contractor, Integrity Staffing Solu...