Amazon has raised its minimum wage in the US to $20 an hour, with average pay at the company reaching $24 an hour, according to the company.<\/p>\n
The pay increase represents a $1 increase from its starting level.<\/p>\n
The company is also expanding employee benefits to grocery discounts, with an uncapped 10% off eligible fresh groceries and everyday essentials on Amazon.com and Whole Foods<\/a> Market Online, plus 20% off in-store at Whole Foods.<\/p>\n The wage increase brings Amazon\u2019s minimum pay in line with Costco, which raised<\/a> its lowest starting pay to $20 an hour in 2025, with pay for most workers raised to more than $30 an hour.<\/p>\n Both retailers have starting pay higher than most competitors. At Target, the starting wage remains $15 an hour<\/a>, and $14 an hour <\/a>at Walmart.<\/p>\n Amazon has about 1.1 million employees<\/a> in the US, the second largest<\/a> private employer behind Walmart. The company has also cited<\/a> the creation of 390,000 Amazon delivery service provider jobs, which are operated by contractors.<\/p>\n \u201cWe talk a lot about continuous improvement at Amazon \u2013 about always wanting to get better, even when things are going well,\u201d wrote Udit Madan, senior vice-president of worldwide operations at Amazon, in a blogpost<\/a> announcing the pay increase.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m excited about how these investments work together to help our employees and their families continue to thrive for the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has raised its minimum wage in the US to $20 an hour, with average pay at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[138,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-603430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}