Amazon Data Engineer Salary (Updated for 2024)

How much is the average Amazon data engineer salary?

Interview Query gathered more than 1,000 Amazon salaries to build our estimates. In most tech companies, there are two ways to evaluate compensation:

• Base salary: This is your normal yearly earnings, which are typically paid bi-weekly or monthly.
  
• Total compensation (TC): This is total earnings, including bonuses and stocks / equity.

Here’s a look at average Amazon data engineer salaries:

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• Business Analyst
• Business Intelligence Engineer
• Data Analyst
• Data Scientist
• Growth Marketing Analyst
• Machine Learning Engineer
• Product Analyst
• Product Manager
• Research Scientist
• Software Engineer

These Amazon data engineer salary numbers are also compared against a dataset of data engineers that work at similar FAANG companies and hot tech startups. We can see that, generally, Amazon pays slightly above other tech companies.

However, when comparing total compensation, Amazon data engineers are in the top 70%. That’s due in part to the performance of Amazon stock compensation for its data engineers.

Seniority can increase the pay of data engineers significantly at Amazon.

Here are the Amazon data engineering base salaries plotted by seniority and compared against other data engineers in tech companies. It’s clear that Amazon maxes out base salary at around $150K, and although base salary for Amazon data engineer managers appears lower, the overall total compensation is much higher.

Typically, data engineers earn base salaries below only a few data science positions. At Amazon, it appears base salaries tend to be comparable to data analysts. However, total compensation brings the average earnings much more in line with industry norms.

Data engineers are one of the highest-earning positions at Amazon in terms of total compensation, behind data scientists, product managers, software engineers, research scientists, and machine learning engineers.

Salary data is likely skewed towards high cost of living cities such as the Bay Area, New York, and Seattle where most Amazon data engineers work. However, salaries are above average in other emerging large U.S. including Atlanta and Washington, D.C. (although it is a small sample size).

Compared to other FAANG companies, Amazon data engineers earn the lowest. Netflix offers the best starting FAANG salary for data engineers at $287,000, while Google is the closest at $148,000.