Amazon is still paying Jeff Bezos an $80,000 yearly salary—but $1.6 million for travel and security

Jeff Bezos may be the world’s third-richest man, but his official salary is still less than six figures.

The 62-year-old Amazon founder is worth $254 billion, less than only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Google cofounder Larry Page, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Yet during nearly his entire 25-year tenure as CEO of the top company on the Fortune 500, Bezos has received the same salary of $81,400 from Amazon—less than the average construction worker, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

Amazon’s 2026 proxy, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday, confirmed Bezos still makes the same wage he has made since 1998, the year he boosted his salary...