Amazon warehouse workers are getting free Prime and a pay raise

Amazon’s warehouse workers and transportation drivers, the radical captious to the company’s quality to get you things accelerated via Amazon Prime, volition soon get Prime subscriptions arsenic portion of their employment. The caller perk was revealed on with different benefits updates, including an mean wage raise, that the institution announced connected Wednesday.

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

As for pay, Amazon says that the front-line workers volition beryllium getting “at least” $1.50 much per hr opening adjacent month, which the institution claims volition bring the mean basal wage for these workers up to much than $22 per hour. The determination follows a $2.1 cardinal concern successful its Delivery Service Partner programme announced past week to assistance those partners summation wage 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 wage for warehouse workers several times implicit the past fewer years. The institution is announcing this latest rise up of its October Prime Day event.