H-1B visa data reveals how much Amazon pays engineers, Data Scientists, financial analysts in the US
Amazon, which has a global workforce of 1.5 million employees, has about 11,300 foreign workers in the first quarter of 2025, according to publicly available filings for H-1B visa holders. This visa allows US employers to hire foreign workers, like the ones from India, in specialty occupations at their companies. The filings also offer a glimpse into the compensation that the ecommerce giant pays for specific roles, including a software engineer, data scientist and product manager.
Based on the data, a report by Business Insider revealed that a Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services gets up to $185,000, while a software development engineer at Amazon.com can make $263,700.
