{"id":9807,"date":"2024-09-19T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/amazon-increases-average-pay-for-warehouse-workers-and-adds-free-prime-membership-perk\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:00:46","slug":"amazon-increases-average-pay-for-warehouse-workers-and-adds-free-prime-membership-perk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/amazon-increases-average-pay-for-warehouse-workers-and-adds-free-prime-membership-perk\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon increases average pay for warehouse workers and adds free Prime membership perk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Amazon\u00a0announced\u00a0Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Beginning this month, Amazon\u2019s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more than $22 an hour, up from roughly $20.50 an hour, the company said.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"\">Amazon said it is also making its Prime subscription service a part of employees\u2019 benefit package beginning \u201cearly next year.\u201d The service, which costs $140 a year, gives members access to speedy shipping and video streaming, among other perks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Last week, Amazon\u00a0also hiked wages\u00a0for its contracted delivery drivers to roughly $22 an hour as part of a $2.1 billion investment this year into its third-party logistics program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The wage hikes come as Amazon is preparing to enter the peak holiday shopping season, a period when retailers typically see a flurry of online shopping. Amazon\u00a0said Tuesday\u00a0it plans to host a second Prime Day-like deal bonanza on Oct. 8-9, the third year it has held the discount event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on NBC NEWS<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u00a0announced\u00a0Wednesday it is raising wages for its hourly warehouse workers and adding a new employee perk that will give them a Prime subscription at no extra cost. Beginning this month, Amazon\u2019s average starting pay for front-line employees in the U.S. will be bumped to an average of more than $22 an hour, up from roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}