Amazon adding 250,000 workers for the holidays and bumping average pay

Amazon said Tuesday it is hiring 250,000 workers in the U.S. to assist handle the vacation rush. It’s additionally bumping the average hourly pay for warehouse and supply workers.

Amazon sometimes boosts its headcount round the peak vacation procuring season, bringing on hordes of momentary workers so it may higher sustain with the surge in demand.

The vacation hiring quantity is a big step up from earlier years. Last yr, the firm said it could carry on 150,000 individuals to employees up for the holidays.

The firm stated warehouse and supply workers will now make $20.50 an hour on average, up from $19 an hour. Amazon has regularly raised the average beginning pay for its frontline workforce lately, amid rising labor tensions. Warehouse and supply workers have taken steps to arrange at a number of services, whereas lawmakers and advocacy teams have criticized its therapy of frontline workers.

With the newest pay hike, some places will provide workers as much as $28 an hour, Amazon stated.

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