{"id":503251,"date":"2026-10-21T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503251\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T09:48:12","slug":"amazon-hiring-1000-seasonal-workers-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503251\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon hiring 1,000+ seasonal workers in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for a job? Amazon expects to hire more than 1,000 seasonal workers in the Fresno area for the holidays.<\/p>\n

The push for more workers in Fresno is part of a companywide effort to hire more than 34,000 seasonal workers across California.<\/p>\n

Amazon officials said the average pay is $20 an hour with healthcare benefits from day one and a path to full-time work.<\/p>\n

Seasonal employees who stay at the company can see an average pay increase of 15% over their first three years with Amazon, company officials said.<\/p>\n

Those interested can go to amazon.com\/localjobs<\/a> or text NEWJOB to 31432 to sign up for job alerts. Open roles are posted throughout the holiday season and fill up quickly.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the open roles and hiring announcement, visit the About Amazon blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon currently employs more than 4,000 full-time workers in the Fresno area.<\/p>\n

The company has expanded the benefits available to full-time employees, including a new grocery discount of 10% off eligible groceries and everyday essentials on Amazon.com and Whole Foods Market online, plus 20% off in-store at Whole Foods Market.<\/p>\n

Existing benefits include healthcare from day one, a free Prime membership, Career Choice prepaid tuition through more than 475 education partners, a 401(k) with company match, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published October 20, 2026 at 2:08 PM.<\/p>\n


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Robert Rodriguez<\/a><\/p>\n

The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n

A Valley native, Robert has worked at The Fresno Bee since 1994, covering various topics including education, business, courts and agriculture.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for a job? Amazon expects to hire more than 1,000 seasonal workers in the Fresno area for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-503251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}