These are the most recent yearly compensation figures for the typical worker at big IT companies, from documents released for annual meetings of shareholders:

 "Alphabet (Google’s parent company): $258,708

Facebook: $247,883

Microsoft: $172,142

Apple: $57,783

Amazon: $28,848 ($36,640 for full-time workers in the U.S.)

For comparison, the typical pay for full-time, year-round workers in the United States was about $52,000 in 2019. Apart from Amazon, these companies only disclose the pay calculated from their global work forces.*

*These figures are all medians, which means numerically half of employees make more and half make less."