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In 2014, 37% of Amazon's sales come from international markets, but the year-over-year growth rate has been decelerating. Amazon's North American net sales increased 22%, while its international sales increased only 3% in the third quarter. In all of 2014, North American sales increased 25% while international sales only increased 12%. International revenue growth continues to be a mystery and is a confusing part of the Amazon story, analysts at investment firm Stifel write in a post-earnings note.
Amazon.com is a huge online retailer which does almost $60 billion a year in sales. But it doesn't pay its executives high salaries, as Fortune's Adam Lashinsky notes in his recent cover story :For example, Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon's North American consumer business, one of its largest, earned a salary last year of $165,000. That reflected a $5,000 raise from the previous year.Save one peer with an ancient employment agreement, no one at Amazon makes more than Wilke.Lashinsky doesn't name that executive, but a quick glance at Amazon's proxy statement tells us it's Diego Piacentini, Amazon's senior vice president for international retail.iacentini makes $175,000 a yearâ$10,000 more than Wilke. Formerly Apple's general manager for Europe, he was hired in 2000 by Joe Galli, a former Black & Decker executive who had a brief stint as Amazon.com's COO.