[joshuamorton]

In general yes. This cap goes up to the VP+ level at amazon. At G/FB you can get base salaries in excess of 300K at that level. At Netflix, salaries can break 500K since stock is handled differently.

And yes, there is a hard cap at 160K. The hard cap apparently changes based on geographic region, but that doesn't really matter for the people in Seattle (the majority of Amazon's employees) who are under a 160K salary cap.

Just as a point of comparison, an L4 at Google could have a 160K salary.