Why is await code executing before sync code?

Question

I have a signup user function that I dont really understand how it's working...

module.exports.signupUser = async (req, res) => {
let email = req.body.email;
let password = req.body.password;
if(!validator.isEmail(email))
{
    res.status(400).json({
        "message": "Please enter a valid email!"
    }).end();
}
else if(!validator.isLength(password, {min:6})){
    res.status(400).json({
        "message": "Password must have at least 6 characters!"
    }).end();
}
else {
    const salt = bcrypt.genSaltSync(10);
    const hashedPassword = await bcrypt.hash(password, salt);
    let params = [email, hashedPassword];
    console.log(hashedPassword);

    let query = 'insert into users (email, password) values (?,?)';
    connection.query(query, params, (err, result, fields) => {
        if(err && err.code === 'ER_DUP_ENTRY') {
            res.status(400).json({
                "message": "There is an account already associated with this email adress!"
            }).end();
        }
        else {
            res.status(200).json({
                "message": "User created!"
            }).end();
        }
    });
}   

}

So in the last else, I use await bcrypt.hash(password, salt) to encrypt my password. I'm new to JS but still I understand that await executes code asyncronously, so console.log(hashedPassword) should not return me the hashed password because this log will execute before the actual hashing. Anyone can explain me what is really happening?