The top three executives for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) saw their pay bumps garner 56% approval in an advisory vote at the company’s shareholder meeting, according to a regulatory filing. That was a much narrower margin than in previous years. Compensation approvals for named executives — the company’s top leaders — usually pass by wide margins at Amazon and other large companies. At Amazon, pay plans for top executives received over 97% approval from shareholders from 2017 through 2020, though last year approval dipped to 81%.
In break with past, Amazon shareholder vote on executive pay was more of a squeaker
June 3, 2022