NEW YORK — Amazon stated Wednesday it’s raising its average beginning pay for frontline employees from $18 to $19 a hour, a increase that might assistance it drawin more staffmembers in a tight labor market as the vacation season methods.
Amazon stated that start in October, storagefacility and transport employees would make inbetween $16 and $26 an hour, depending on their position and area in the U.S. The minimum wage at the Seattle-based e-commerce business, which utilized approximately 1.5 million frontline employees as of the end of June, will stay $15 an hour.
The pay raise follows an statement from Amazon that it will hold a Prime-Day like vacation shopping occasion in October, the veryfirst time it is having a significant sales drive twotimes in a year, following its Prime Day offers occasion in