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Re:NY state tax break is $48k per Amazon HQ job by WalterBright on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @10:54PM (#18456740)
I read it in one of the flurry of newspaper articles in the last couple days about Amazon, but don't recall which.

Doing some googling:

Amazon Aug 2017 had 40,000 workers in Seattle:

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/thanks-to-amazo...

Workers in Seattle are currently 425,827

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/seattle-wa/

So the 15% figure is plausible.

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