{"id":1002792,"date":"2026-04-13T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002792"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:01:38","slug":"amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-is-the-worlds-third-richest-person-yet-his-salary-is-less-than","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-is-the-worlds-third-richest-person-yet-his-salary-is-less-than\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world&#8217;s third richest person, yet his salary is less than \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, founder and former CEO of Amazon, is currently the world\u2019s third richest person, but his official salary remains surprisingly low. Despite having a net worth of about $254 billion, Bezos has kept the same base salary for decades. According to company filings, he earns just $81,400 a year \u2014 an amount that is lower than what many professionals earn today. Bezos has been drawing this salary since 1998, when it was slightly increased from around $79,000. Since then, it has remained unchanged. Company documents state that Bezos chose not to take additional compensation and has never accepted higher cash pay.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos wealth tied to stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezos, founder and former CEO of Amazon, is currently the world\u2019s third richest person, but his official salary remains surprisingly low. Despite having a net worth of about $254 billion, Bezos has kept the same base salary for decades. According to company filings, he earns just $81,400 a year \u2014 an amount that is lower than what many professionals earn today. Bezos has been drawing this salary since 1998, when it was slightly increased from around $79,000. Since then, it has remained unchanged. Company documents state that Bezos chose not to take additional compensation and has never accepted higher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}