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£9.70 per hourStarting Hourly WageIn the US, Amazon’s starting wage is 15 USD per hour for all full-time, part-time, temporary (including those recruited by agencies) and seasonal employees. Our starting hourly wage is 9.70 GBP in the UK, 16 CAD in Canada, 12 EUR in Germany and 10.67 EUR in France.
Offering leading starting wages has a positive impact on other wages in local labour markets where Amazon operates in the US. A recent study by economists at the University of California-Berkeley and Brandeis University found that Amazon’s decision to increase its starting wage to 15 USD per hour resulted in a 4.7 % increase in the average hourly wage among other employers in the same labour market based on commuting zone.
Comprehensive Benefits
Outside of the U.S., we offer our employees access to benefits to support physical and financial well-being, including access to healthcare coverage and long-term savings plans. We are working to evolve our benefits programs in different countries to support the needs of our diverse workforce. For example, in India, we cover infertility treatment and gender reassignment surgery through a select network of high-quality service providers. Amazon employees in 26 countries have access to telehealth services, providing fast and safe access to care, and in 21 countries, ReThink helps families with children who have autism and other disabilities build the skills they need to reach their fuller potential. Additionally, Amazon employees around the world and their eligible dependents have access to an Employee Assistance Program that provides mental health support 24 hours a day.
As of June 2021, Amazon employed more than 40,000 veterans and military spouses across the US, surpassing the Joining Forces Pledge we made in 2016 to recruit 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years, and to train 10,000 active duty service members, veterans and military spouses. Amazon provides a Military Leave of Absence to all eligible serving employees, including differential pay, continued healthcare coverage and job protection.
In 2019, Amazon committed 700 million USD to pilot, launch and scale free or low-cost upskilling opportunities to 100,000 employees by 2025. Since making this commitment, Amazon has scaled and expanded our skills training programmes, with 15,000 employees participating in the first 12 months. Through this pledge, Amazon is helping our workforce gain education to transition into high demand and technical roles in areas that will continue growing in years to come, such as medicine, cloud computing and machine learning.
Education and Career Advancement
Among our skills training programmes is Career Choice, which pre-pays 95 % of tuition for courses in high-demand fields for employees in the US, Europe, Australia, South Africa, Canada and Costa Rica. Through Career Choice, more than 40,000 employees in 14 countries have pursued degrees across the fields of information technology, healthcare, mechanical and skilled trades, administration and business services, and transportation. Additional programmes include Amazon Apprenticeship, Amazon Technical Academy, Associate2Tech, Machine Learning University and AWS Training and Certification, all of which help Amazon employees gain critical skills to move into higher-skilled, better-paying, technical and non-technical roles, either within Amazon or elsewhere.
“Since graduating from the Associate2Tech program, I’ve had the opportunity to launch new sites and work on projects that improved overall customer experience, and have been promoted to the next level within IT.”
Andre Grass
Amazon Employee and Graduate of Amazon Associate2Tech Program
Find out more about all the ways we are supporting our employees during the COVID-19 pandemic on our COVID-19 vaccination and testing blog.
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