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Amazon raises wages, adds Prime to benefits for US hourly workers
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Amazon raises wages, adds Prime to benefits for US hourly workers

Pay. In 2018, we led the industry by raising our starting salary to $15 per hour, more than double the federal minimum wage. We’ve raised it every year since, and today we announced that starting this month, our hourly frontline team members will earn at least an additional $1.50 per hour, bringing their average base pay to over $22 per hour and their average total compensation to over $29 per hour when you factor in the value of their chosen benefits (things like healthcare starting on day one – more on that below). That’s an increase of an average of $3,000 per year for full-time employees working 40 hours per week. And as one of the largest private employers in the country (we now have over 800,000 people in these roles in the U.S.), this pay increase equates to a total investment of over $2.2 billion in our team.