Amazon announced last week that it is hiring 250,000 employees for its holiday peak season, which it said is “good news for anyone looking for a job.” A new report, however, has found that warehouse workers in areas where Amazon is present make 30 percent below a county’s monthly average. When Amazon isn’t present, warehouse workers actually earn five percent above average pay, the report found.
The report, released by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) on Tuesday, stated that in the highest-earning 20 percent of U.S. counties, warehouse workers in counties with Amazon warehouses earn an average of $822 less per month than those in comparable counties with non-Amazon warehouses. Amazon’s presence in a high-earning county means that warehouse workers will earn an average of 30 percent less than the county’s average income, the report states.
Motherboard has previously reported on how Amazon brings down wages in the warehousing sector. The company advertises that its jobs pay above federal minimum wage, but work in the physically-demanding warehousing industry typically pays even more. Amazon’s wages average $19 per hour—though, in its announcement last week, the company said that number would soon rise to $20.50—but reporting has shown that Amazon’s warehouse workers still struggle to pay their bills, and face grueling and ergonomically dangerous physical labor.
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