Senator Josh Hawley has publicly questioned and criticized the $40 million annual salary of Amazon’s CEO in the context of Amazon’s massive profits and the relatively low wages of average Amazon workers. He highlighted that while the CEO earns about $40.1 million a year, the average Amazon employee makes less than $38,000 annually, pointing out the stark disparity in pay within the company. Hawley argued this pay gap is neither pro-worker nor pro-American and called for putting American workers