Business Insider
previously calculated Bezos' annual and hourly earnings using Forbes' annual billionaire's list, published every March, but we've updated these calculations using the latest Forbes 400 list, published on October 3.
This estimation of Bezos' wages are being used for the sake of comparison. A large portion of his wealth is tied to Amazon stock, which can increase or decrease in value at any given time. This calculation is also not reflective of Bezos' exact salary from Amazon.
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At the annual earnings rate Business Insider calculated — again, an estimation based on the change in his Forbes net worth year-over-year — Bezos has earned $6.54 billion a month, more than $1.5 billion a week, and more than $215 million a day in the last 12 months.
Per hour, he makes a whopping $8,961,187 — that's roughly 315 times Amazon's $28,466 median
annual worker pay. An Amazon worker earning the $15 minimum wage would need to work about 597,412 hours, or 24 hours a day for about 68 years, just to earn what Bezos makes in one hour.
But neither Amazon's recent minimum wage increase to $15, nor the median annual worker pay is close to how much Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes.
Bezos' rate is equivalent to $149,353 a minute. To put things in perspective, Bezos makes more than three times what the median US worker makes in year
— $45,552, according to data by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics — in one minute.