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Amazon giving hourly workers pay raises early

April 29, 2021 by Marita Overfelt

(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is rolling out raises to more than 500,000 of its hourly workers a few months early, spending $1 billion on pay bumps designed to juice hiring at the company’s fast-growing logistics division.

The raises, which range from 50 cents to $3 an hour for most workers, will take effect in May and June, Darcie Henry, a vice president in Amazon’s human resources group, said in a note posted to Amazon’s corporate blog. Henry said the company was hiring for “tens of thousands of jobs” across its logistics operations in the U.S.

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