SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon is boosting its minimum wage for all U.S. workers to $15 per hour starting next month.
The company said Tuesday that the wage hike will benefit more than 350,000 workers, which includes full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal positions. It includes Whole Foods employees. Amazon’s hourly operations and customer service employees, some who already make $15 per hour, will also see a wage increase, the Seattle-based company said.
Amazon has more than 575,000 employees globally.
Pay for workers at Amazon can vary by location. Its starting pay is $10 an hour at a warehouse in Austin, Texas, and $13.50 an hour in Robbinsville, New Jersey. The median pay for an Amazon employee last year was $28,446, according to government filings, which includes full-time, part-time and temporary workers.
Amazon said its public policy team will start pushing for an increase in the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.
“We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country,” Jay Carney, senior vice president of Amazon global corporate affairs, said in a statement.
Good for them! I guess Jeff has enough money to share with employees now. I really don’t like Amazon.
Now I’m not angry that my prime membership cost is going up next year. Yay!
Hey Besos
About.
Fucking.
Time .
Seeing how you’re down to your last 164.2 billion USD net worth and will shortly be eating he leather off the seats in your Rolls Royce to survive
Trump will somehow try to criticize this, and may end up suggesting that other companies already have or should do this, and then he’ll deny what he said and move on to the next very presidential tweet.
Oh the magnanimity! Oh the noblesse oblige! The man who single handedly destroyed the independent bookstore, and whose business model is built on an army of Medieval serfs (compensation speaking) will be (eyes welling with tears) throwing some bread, lagniappes and crudites from the balcony of the palace this afternoon to mark this festive occasion.
How about medical insurance? Does anyone know if he provides that? Does anyone know how large an army of part-time and temporary workers he permanently employs specifically to avoid paying them benefits, vacation, paid leave?