Amazon warehouse workers are getting Prime and a pay raise

Amazon’s storage workers and transportation drivers, the group captious to the company’s expertise to get you things accelerated via Amazon Prime, will soon get Prime subscriptions arsenic portion of their employment. The caller perk was revealed on pinch different benefits updates, including an mean salary raise, that the institution announced connected Wednesday.

The free Prime will beryllium portion of the benefits for “front-line” workers starting “early adjacent year,” according to a blog post. They’ll person free Prime for “as agelong arsenic they are a portion of the Amazon team.” Amazon Prime typically costs $14.99 per period aliases $139 per year.

As for pay, Amazon says that the front-line workers will beryllium getting “at least” $1.50 much per hr opening adjacent month, which the institution claims will bring the mean guidelines costs for these workers up to much than $22 per hour. The move follows a $2.1 cardinal finance successful its Delivery Service Partner programme announced past week to thief those partners summation salary for their transportation drivers to “a nationalist mean of astir $22.00 per hour.”

Amazon besides offers connection classes done a programme called Career Choice, and now, alternatively of having to hold 90 days to beryllium capable to enroll successful those, front-line workers tin motion up for them “from time one.”

Amazon has raised salary for storage workers several times complete the past fewer years. The institution is announcing this latest raise up of its October Prime Day event.