The pay of workers already making $15 an hour in its warehouses and customer-service operations will increase as well, Amazon said.
Amazon went a step further than those retailers by raising its minimum pay immediately rather than over several years.
The big unanswered question is why Amazon is making this wage increase, and why now? Worker paychecks are one area where Amazon is vulnerable to criticism, particularly as the company's market value hovers around the symbolic $1 trillion stratosphere.
The median annual pay for Amazon workers is less than $29,000 a year, the company disclosed recently.
If Amazon was contemplating minimum wage changes when Sanders made waves, there was no need for Amazon to push back so hard against him.
The people who sort, pack, ship and deliver orders for Amazon shoppers are crucial to Bezos' desire to make Amazon the one-stop shop for every purchase people might desire.
Amazon doesn't want anything - including its corporate reputation - to get in the way of commerce.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/amazons-wage-raise-is-a-small-price-to-pay-for-its-reputation/
Amazon went a step further than those retailers by raising its minimum pay immediately rather than over several years.
The big unanswered question is why Amazon is making this wage increase, and why now? Worker paychecks are one area where Amazon is vulnerable to criticism, particularly as the company's market value hovers around the symbolic $1 trillion stratosphere.
The median annual pay for Amazon workers is less than $29,000 a year, the company disclosed recently.
If Amazon was contemplating minimum wage changes when Sanders made waves, there was no need for Amazon to push back so hard against him.
The people who sort, pack, ship and deliver orders for Amazon shoppers are crucial to Bezos' desire to make Amazon the one-stop shop for every purchase people might desire.
Amazon doesn't want anything - including its corporate reputation - to get in the way of commerce.
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/amazons-wage-raise-is-a-small-price-to-pay-for-its-reputation/
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