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r/amazonemployees on Reddit: Pivot Severance Calculation
February 18, 2024 -
Is there anyone here who recently went through the pivot/PIP process and was offered the payout?
Can you drop in your base salary, tenure, and the amount they offered you?
Trying to calculate how much I’ll get when the inevitable happens :)
UPDATE - Already in the comments but bringing up here. Thank you u/MrHaVoC805!
Payout = 10 weeks of base pay + (basepay * 1%) * (tenure in months /12)
My example
Pivot Payment - Pre-Tax: $24,495.63
Base Annual: $88,600
Tenure: 8.42 years (101 months)
$88,600/52 = $1,703.85
$1,703.85 * 10 = $17,038.46
$88,600 x 0.01 = $886
$24,495.63 = $17,038.46 + ($886 x (101/12))
After taxes, I ended up with closer to $17.5k (absolute robbery) but that of course depends on your own tax deductions.
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Here it is: 10 weeks of base pay +( basepay* 1%) * (tenure in months /12). Example, for calculating it with a $95k base and 2 year tenure: $95k/52 = $1826 $1826*10= $18,269 Then 95k x 1% = $950 Tenure 24 mo / 12 = 2 $950 x 2 = $1900 You get $18,269 + $1,900 = $19,219 My pivot payment was $34k, and that was with 7yrs tenure with a $135k base; so the math checks out with the above example
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I am assuming all of these are US based calculations. Anybody knows calculations over in EU and India?
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r/amazonemployees on Reddit: Amazon Severance package
January 4, 2025 -
Are the details of the renumeration of how many months that the amazon is liable to pay to employee as a part of severance, not mentioned in the terms of employment? or is not informed at all beforehand?
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Here's the formula they use for Pivot tier one severance: 10 weeks of base pay +( basepay* 1%) * (tenure in months /12). Example, for calculating it with a $95k base and 2 year tenure: $95k/52 = $1826 $1826*10= $18,269 Then 95k x 1% = $950 Tenure 24 mo / 12 = 2 $950 x 2 = $1900 You get $18,269 + $1,900 = $19,219 My pivot payment was $34k, and that was with 7 yrs tenure @ $135k base; so the math checks out with the above example.
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No, these details won't be spelled out in the documents you sign. Because Amazon doesn't have to pay you any severance, and in some cases won't, depending on why you're being let go. Layoffs vs. Pivot vs. fired for cause are all going to be handled differently. With Pivot, you usually want to take the first package offered, as they only get stingier if you hang on and try to "improve with Amazon".
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