Amazon to Hire 250,000 Workers and Increase Pay Amid Holidays

Amazon to Hire 250,000 Workers , and Increase Pay Amid Holidays.

On Sept.

19, Amazon announced that it will hire 250,000 people to keep up with the holiday rush, CNBC reports.

That number is significantly more than the 150,000 workers the company said it would hire last year.

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This year, seasonal, part-time and full-time warehouse and delivery positions will be available.

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Hourly wages will be between $17 and $28.

Some locations will offer sign-on bonuses up to $3,000.

Current warehouse and delivery workers will receive $20.50 an hour.

Amazon announced the increase in wages last week at a conference for "its contracted delivery partner program," CNBC reports.

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The increase in driver wages will stem from a $440 million investment into the third-party delivery program.

This is going directly to DSPs, so that they can offer competitive pay to their employees, and build and retain great teams, Beryl Tomay, Amazon’s vice president of last mile delivery and technology, via CNBC.

After Walmart, Amazon is the second-largest employer in America.

After Walmart, Amazon is the second-largest employer in America