[DVassallo]

My base was $160K for a long time. I think it's the max at Amazon. The rest was stock. I got lucky that AMZN stock grew a lot in the last few years. Without the growth it would have been about $380K/year (i.e. that's what I was granted originally before the stock grew).

[meritt]

I'm not following how $380k is the baseline. Were the grants based in dollars or in AMZN shares? I assume it was based in shares and if the stock had fallen you'd have made less?

[DVassallo]

The grants were based in AMZN shares. Yes, if the stock had fallen I would have make less. If it falls significantly (happened only once in 2014-2015 when I was there) the company typically tops you up with the difference (or part of it).