{"id":6213,"date":"2025-10-16T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/6213\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:36:09","slug":"amazon-to-hire-24000-in-texas-including-3000-in-houston-ahead-of-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/6213\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to hire 24,000 in Texas, including 3,000 in Houston, ahead of holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/amazon-prime-lawsuit-settlement-21068049.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amazon is creating several thousand jobs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Amazon is creating several thousand jobs<\/a> across Texas and the Houston area ahead of the holiday season, according to a news release from the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">24,000 full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions will open in Texas, including 3,000 across Greater Houston, the company said. Full- and part-time employees earn roughly $23 an hour with benefits, while seasonal employees can earn over $19 an hour on average. Roles are posted weekly from October through December on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hiring.amazon.com\/portal\/hiringEvent\/checkIn?event=eyJldmVudElkIjoiZXZ0LTI1MTZmMWRjLTAwZWYtNGEyOC05ZDRmLWFkMTA5NTBlN2VmMiIsInN0YXJ0RGF0ZSI6IjIwMjUtMDQtMDFUMTQ6MDA6MDBaIiwiZW5kRGF0ZSI6IjIwMjUtMTItMzFUMTU6MzA6MDBaIiwibG9jYXRpb24iOiIiLCJzdGFydEVuZFRpbWVab25lIjoiRVNUX0VEVCIsImV2ZW50TmFtZSI6Ik5hdGlvbmFsIEFtcGxpZmljYXRpb24tQ1BPIE5ld3NsZXR0ZXItQWxsIE1hcmtldHMifQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:hiring.amazon.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">hiring.amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/amazon-prime-lawsuit-settlement-21068049.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amazon will refund Prime subscribers in historic FTC settlement. 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Here&#8217;s how to get yours.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Those looking for a job at Amazon can also text NEWJOB to 31432 to sign up for job alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Amazon has invested $84.3 billion in Texas since 2010, while independent sellers from Texas last year sold more than 216 million items, according to\u00a0the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/trending\/article\/amazon-texas-jobs-houston-21102983.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Amazon to hire 24,000 in Texas, including 3,000 in Houston, ahead of holidays;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Amazon to hire 24,000 in Texas, including 3,000 in Houston, ahead of holidays<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is creating several thousand jobs across Texas and the Houston area ahead of the holiday season, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6292,2873,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-6213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-amazon-com-inc","9":"tag-houston-area","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}