{"id":747181,"date":"2026-09-16T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazon-gives-its-workers-a-raise-of-1-per-hour\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T14:35:44","slug":"amazon-gives-its-workers-a-raise-of-1-per-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazon-gives-its-workers-a-raise-of-1-per-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon gives its workers a raise of $1 per hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon is raising the minimum starting pay for its U.S. core operations workers \u2014 like delivery drivers and fulfillment center employees \u2014 to $20 per hour and its average hourly pay to nearly $24 per hour. The company notes the higher pay represents an increase of $1 per hour for eligible employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen you add in the value of our industry-leading benefits, average total compensation comes to more than $32 per hour,\u201d Amazon Senior Vice President Udit Madan wrote in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aboutamazon.com\/news\/workplace\/amazon-raises-minimum-starting-pay-adds-grocery-banking-benefits\">blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investment in these raises comes out to over $1.5 billion, or about 0.06% of its $2.68 trillion market cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, Amazon says it will now also provide employees with access to a low-cost banking system called Day 1 Financial, a membership in First Tech Federal Credit Union, as well as a 20% discount on purchases bought in-store at Whole Foods Market, the premium grocery chain that Amazon owns. If employees order groceries online via Amazon, they will also get a 10% discount.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon already offers its employees free Prime memberships, prepaid education programs, and healthcare coverage, among its benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a sub<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reddit<\/a> for Amazon fulfillment center employees, people seem less than enthused. Regarding the Whole Foods discount, one worker <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/AmazonFC\/comments\/1whu7kw\/comment\/pa5vx6y\/\">commented<\/a>, \u201cSo it would make it cost almost the same as a regular store, then? 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The company notes the higher pay represents an increase of $1 per hour for eligible employees. \u201cWhen you add&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}