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Apple Salaries: Filings Reveal Tech Talent, AI, Engineer Pay
New federal filings submitted by Apple reveal how much the tech giant pays its employees for a variety of roles. Apple is one of the most valuable companies in the world, with a market capitalization of $3.12 trillion at the time of writing — and now new data reveals how much Apple pays its workers, from AI machine learning researchers to data scientists. According to new federal filings, obtained by Business Insider, Apple is paying software developers as much as $264,200, while software engineer managers make as much as $378,700. The filings, which featured several software engineering roles, reveal that Apple pays engineers focused on data up to $329,600 while engineers focused on applications earn more, up to $378,700. Human interface designers, meanwhile, can make substantially more, up to $468,500. Related: Here's How Much Money Amazon Employees — From Software Engineers to Product Managers — Make in a Year Other big tech companies compensate their employees similarly for comparable roles. For example, Meta pays $120,000 to $480,000, Google pays $109,180 to $340,000, and Microsoft pays $82,971 to $284,000 for software engineering talent. When it comes to AI researchers, Apple pays the role up to $312,000 in base salary — a far cry from Meta, which has recently awarded over $200 million in compensation for AI talent amid the ongoing AI talent wars. Meta has poached four AI researchers from Apple as of Monday, per Bloomberg. The Apple data arrives from documents that the company filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in the second quarter of the year while hiring foreign workers. The data only applies to foreign hires and discloses base salary, not including stock options, signing bonuses, or other compensation. Related: Psychologist Adam Grant Says Paying Employees 'Extremely Generously' Can Actually Benefit Employers, Too. Here's Why. Other roles are paid as follows, according to the filings: Data Scientist: $105,550 to $322,400 $105,550 to $322,400 Electronics Engineer: $108,160 to $264,200 $108,160 to $264,200 Hardware Developers: $124,942 to $293,800 $124,942 to $293,800 Machine Learning Engineer: $143,100 to $312,000 $143,100 to $312,000 Professional Services Consultant: $100,200 to $258,700 $100,200 to $258,700 Tools and Automation Engineer: $105,602 to $293,800 While these roles can pay well into the six figures, there's one role at Apple that makes the most money of all: CEO. According to Apple's annual proxy statement, filed this year with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the tech giant's CEO, Tim Cook, made $74.6 million in 2024, including base salary, bonuses, and stock options. Apple CEO Tim Cook. Photo byCook explained in a 2023 interview with singer Dua Lipa that Apple looks for traits like curiosity and creativity from new hires and recruits workers from "all walks of life." Related: Here's How Much 8 CEOs Made in 2024, From JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon to Disney's Bob Iger "It's an incredible feeling to work with people that bring out the best in you," Cook stated in the interview. Apple has 80,000 employees and claims to have created two million jobs across the country, including 1.53 million U.S. jobs due to the App Store ecosystem.
Entrepreneur
3 days ago
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How Much Do Walmart Employees Make? Salaries Revealed
New data reveals the compensation paid to Walmart's over two million employees. New federal filings reveal what the world's largest private employer, Walmart, with over two million global employees, pays its workforce. Top tech companies can pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries, with Meta paying up to millions, and Walmart is no different. According to the filings, seen by Business Insider, Walmart pays software engineers up to $286,000, comparable to the $263,700 made by top engineers at rival Amazon. Other tech giants offer high compensation for similar roles, including Microsoft, which can pay $284,000 for top engineering talent. At Meta and Google, the same roles can pay up to $480,000 at Meta and a maximum of $340,000 for Google. Related: Top-Performing Walmart Managers Can Now Make $620,000 a Year The filings also show that Walmart, which is the world's largest company by revenue, compensates staff product managers anywhere from $136,500 to $286,000. Meanwhile, data scientists take home a range of $138,333 to $286,000. The data arrives from the 1,750 filings Walmart submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor in the first half of this year. Companies are required to submit pay information when hiring foreign workers through the H-1B visa program, which allows highly skilled workers to take on specialty occupations. The documents show base annual salaries for H-1B visa workers and do not include additional forms of compensation, like signing bonuses and stock options. They present a snapshot of compensation, but not the entire picture. Related: This 'Sweet' Role Is the Highest Paid Position at Walmart After Managers The filings reveal that Walmart pays other roles as follows: Distinguished Architect: $184,827 to $338,000 $184,827 to $338,000 Senior Product Manager: $121,000 to $286,000 $121,000 to $286,000 Senior Design Researcher: $142,002 to $234,000 $142,002 to $234,000 User Experience Design Senior Manager: $183,227 to $286,000 $183,227 to $286,000 Software Engineering Director: $190,486 to $312,000 $190,486 to $312,000 Product Management Director: $201,323 to $338,000 While these roles can pay six figures, they are outside the typical salary for most Walmart employees. Walmart's workforce mainly consists of hourly store workers, who average an hourly wage of close to $18. As of 2021, Walmart employed 1.2 million part-time and full-time hourly store workers in the U.S. out of 1.5 million overall U.S. employees. As of the time of writing, more than 75% of Walmart's 45,201 open jobs globally are for positions in Walmart stores and warehouses. That composition is reflected in broader assessments of Walmart's pay levels. According to Walmart's annual proxy statement, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year, the median Walmart employee made $29,469. In comparison, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon earned a total annual compensation of $27,408,854, or 930 times more than the median employee. Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. Photo byThe statement also showed that Walmart has increased its workforce over the past few years. As of the end of fiscal year 2024, Walmart employed approximately 1.6 million U.S. employees and had about 2.1 million workers worldwide, making it both the largest employer in the U.S. and in the world. Related: Here's How Much 8 CEOs Made in 2024, From JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon to Disney's Bob Iger Some Walmart market managers who manage a cluster of stores can make $420,000 to $620,000 in total compensation. Walmart gave these managers a pay increase of up to $100,000 from last year. Additionally, with revenue of $681 billion last year, Walmart beat Amazon, which earned $638 billion across the same period, to the top spot of the world's biggest company by revenue. Walmart stock was up nearly 9% year-to-date at the time of writing. The company has a market value of over $780 billion.
Entrepreneur
23-07-2025
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How Much Do Amazon Employees Make? Salaries Revealed
New data revealed how much Amazon pays its employees, including CEO Andy Jassy. How well does e-commerce giant Amazon pay its employees? Newly available public documents revealed the salary ranges Amazon paid software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and other staff. According to the filings, obtained by Business Insider, Amazon is paying software engineers in its Amazon Web Services cloud division as much as $185,000, while software developers working at make up to $263,700. Related: Here's How Much a Typical Nvidia Employee Makes in a Year The filings also show that Amazon pays data scientists as much as $230,900. Financial analysts take home a maximum of $204,028, and technical product managers can make up to $235,200. The data is drawn from 11,300 documents that Amazon filed with the U.S. Department of Labor in the first quarter of the year while onboarding foreign workers. The data only pertains to foreign hires and only includes base salary, not signing bonuses, stock options, or other forms of compensation. In comparison, Meta pays $120,000 to $480,000, Google pays $109,180 to $340,000, and Microsoft pays $82,971 to $284,000 for software engineering talent. The filings show that Amazon pays other roles on the team as follows: Applied Scientist: $83,491 to $260,000 $83,491 to $260,000 Business Analyst: $79,518 to $143,100 $79,518 to $143,100 Data Engineer: $70,262 to $236,344 $70,262 to $236,344 Product Manager: $109,782 to $200,000 $109,782 to $200,000 Program Manager: $81,600 to $162,700 $81,600 to $162,700 Quality Assurance Engineer: $86,320 to $185,000 While these roles can pay in the six figures, they are outside the norm for most Amazon workers. Approximately 65% of Amazon's workforce is employed in operations and fulfillment roles in its warehouses, including positions like warehouse associates and delivery drivers. That composition is reflected in more general measures of Amazon's pay levels. For example, according to Amazon's annual proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this year, the median global Amazon employee made $37,181 in 2024. The same document showed that Amazon paid CEO Andy Jassy $1,596,889 in 2024, or about 43 times more than the median global employee. Related: Here's How Much a Typical Google Employee Makes in a Year U.S.-based Amazon employees are compensated better than their global counterparts. The annual proxy statement revealed that the median annual compensation was $47,990 for full-time U.S. employees, an approximately $10,000 increase from the pay of a median global employee. According to Amazon's latest quarterly earnings report, released in May, the company employs 1.56 million people worldwide.
Yahoo
23-07-2025
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- Yahoo
"I wonder how much that puts a target on someone's life" - Kyrie Irving suggests NBA contracts shouldn't be available to the public
"I wonder how much that puts a target on someone's life" - Kyrie Irving suggests NBA contracts shouldn't be available to the public originally appeared on Basketball Network. Even though the NBA season is still a couple of months away from its restart, it seems like the players are not just sitting back and relaxing. Now, in an era where the social media presence of NBA stars is higher than ever before, some of them use those platforms to voice their opinions and point out anything they might find unwelcome in the basketball world. And when it comes to speaking your mind, especially on topics that go beyond the game (ehm, COVID vaccines), few have been more consistently outspoken than Kyrie Irving. This time, the Dallas Mavericks star raised an issue that rarely comes up from the players' side, questioning whether it still makes sense for NBA salaries to be fully public. "I find it very interesting that, of course, people will know how much the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies make. They will know different avenues of nine to five, in terms of the contract structure, but when it comes to sports, it's like, you know exactly the pay scale, the details of it and then it gets discussed as though there isn't any real live consequences to that," Irving opined in one of his live streams. "I wonder how much that puts a target on someone's life, where you know what's going on, you see it very causal, but it helps the overall growth of a sport, the sexiness of it, like, 'Oh, guess what Kai, or so and so is making this,' record breaking historic numbers… But I look at it, is it too much information at some point though?" the shifty point guard added. Players were receiving criticism depending on how much money they make It's not hard to understand where Kyrie is coming from. The moment a player signs a new deal, the figures are everywhere. Salary, incentives, player options broken down in seconds by every major media outlet. The business of basketball has become part of the content. And fans, who play a massive role in financing the league through TV ratings, merchandise and ticket sales, have naturally grown used to knowing exactly how much their favorite players are getting paid or just how much their home team splurges around. From one angle, that transparency strengthens the connection between fans and teams. It gives everyone something to talk about. But on the flip side, those same numbers often become weapons used against the players. Just ask Ben Simmons. The former No. 1 pick signed a five-year, $170 million contract extension with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2019, and ever since then, he has been on the receiving end of daily criticism, the guy who is robbing the teams in front of their eyes. Whether he was sidelined due to injury or holding out during his exit from Philly, Simmons' paycheck has been a punching bag, and that's exactly what Kai was and still is trying to but wishful thinking for now While WNBA players continue to speak out in hopes of getting their paychecks closer to what they deserve, Kyrie's suggestion floats in a bit of an opposite direction. And while his concern is understandable, it's hard to imagine the league ever going back on this particular norm. The league, especially the NBA, is built around its superstars. And salaries, whether we would like to admit it or not, sell stories and drive the necessary "drama." For Irving and probably many more players, a world with less exposure to how much dollar bills they are making would offer some peace of mind, but for now, these kinds of speculations are reserved strictly for podcast story was originally reported by Basketball Network on Jul 22, 2025, where it first appeared.
BreakingNews.ie
18-07-2025
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- BreakingNews.ie
Spend of €1 million on eight advisers to Taoiseach
Over €1 million will be spent this year on paying the wages of the Taoiseach's eight political and media advisers. The Department of Public Expenditure has made public the details of the salaries. Advertisement Taoiseach Micheál Martin currently has eight special advisers including his deputy secretary and assistant secretary. All eight are being paid over €100,000 annually. The yearly bill for the Taoiseach's eight advisers comes to just over €1 million. The highest paid is his deputy secretary, who is on over €210,000 per year. For comparison, the highest paid special adviser in the UK is Cork native Morgan McSweeney. The chief of staff for UK prime minister Keir Starmer is paid €185,000 per year. Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said those at the top of Government are out of touch. "This is outrageous. Why does the Taoiseach need eight special advisers? These salaries are higher than their British counterparts. "One year of special advisers' salaries for the Taoiseach is three times the amount of the cost of the bicycle shed and it's ongoing, it's happening every single year. "I think that cavalier attitude towards taxpayers' money is evident right at the top of the Government, and I think there needs to be change."
