{"id":619279,"date":"2026-09-09T12:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619279\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T12:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:18:12","slug":"amazon-ireland-announces-200-new-jobs-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/619279\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Ireland Announces 200 New Jobs In Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkout.ie\/tag\/amazon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> has started recruiting for 200 new jobs at its operation sites in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkout.ie\/tag\/co-dublin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin<\/a> and announced an increase in minimum starting pay, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2026\/0909\/1590839-amazon-announces-200-dublin-jobs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RT\u00c9 reported today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The online retailer is hiring for roles in its main distribution warehouse in Baldonnel \u2013 which currently employs 700 people \u2013 in addition to two delivery stations in Rathcoole and Ballycoolin.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon first opened its Baldonnel site in 2022, creating 500 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Amazon employs almost 6,500 people in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkout.ie\/technology\/amazon-accidentally-announces-lay-offs-early-with-misfired-email-223763\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as part of global redundancies<\/a>, Amazon axed around 150 jobs in Ireland, and in January this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkout.ie\/technology\/amazon-ireland-to-proceed-with-350-redundancies-224924\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a further 350 jobs were under threat at Amazon Web Services<\/a> as part of global restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-founded retailer announced that minimum starting pay for Irish workers is rising to \u20ac17.10 on 27 September \u2013 an increase of \u20ac0.65 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the pay increase, Amazon\u2019s regional director for logistics in the UK and Ireland, Darragh Kelly, said, \u201cOur frontline employees are at the heart of everything we do, and this pay increase reflects our continued commitment to investing in the people who make Amazon work for customers every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re proud that starting pay in Ireland has increased by approximately 27% since 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkout.ie\/technology\/amazon-enters-3-trillion-club-on-ai-and-cloud-growth-227688\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Enters $3 Trillion Club On AI And Cloud Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has started recruiting for 200 new jobs at its operation sites in Dublin and announced an increase&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[262816,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-619279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-amazon-ireland-announces-200-new-jobs-in-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}