Overview
- Amazon filed roughly 11,300 H-1B visas for foreign technical and business roles in the first quarter of 2025.
- The filings reveal base pay ceilings of $263,700 for software development engineers, $230,900 for data scientists and $235,200 for technical product managers.
- Mandatory H-1B disclosures have provided new transparency into Amazon’s structured pay bands for foreign hires in the U.S.
- Compensation packages are determined by role, level, location and performance and are routinely reviewed to stay competitive.
- CEO Andy Jassy issued a June memo urging employees to experiment with AI as Amazon retools performance metrics and hiring priorities.