Amazon hiring 250,000 holiday workers, tying 2023 record
Amazon's seasonal holiday plans are on par with last year.
For the 2024 holiday season, Amazon is looking to hire 250,000 full-time, part-time and seasonal roles across its customer fulfillment and transportation operations in the United States. This matches the record-setting figure the company set in 2023 and 100,000 more than it hired in preparation for the holidays in 2022 and 2021.
Amazon said it offers a streamlined holiday application process where job-seekers can receive a contingent work offer immediately when they apply, including part-time roles with as little as 20 hours a week. All seasonal employees will earn at least $18 per hour and will have access to benefits like health care from the first day on the job. Applicants can check current job openings online or sign up to receive Amazon job alerts via text.
Open roles are posted throughout the holiday season and Amazon says they fill up quickly. In addition, the e-tailer says that nearly one-third of people who have come to work at Amazon as a holiday hire return.
Other retailers that have announced holiday hiring plans include Target, which plans to hire 100,000 workers, JCPenney, Macy's and Burlington Stores.
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Amazon sweetens the deal for workers
Amazon is bringing on a large number of seasonal hourly employees as it has been adding perks for the more than 800,000 hourly members of its U.S. frontline worker team. These include a raise of at least an additional $1.50/hour starting in September 2024, which will bring their average base wage to more than $22/hour and average total compensation to more than $29/hour including the value of their elected benefits (such as health care eligibility on the first day on the job).
And starting in early 2025, membership in the Prime program, which includes unlimited fast, free delivery of eligible as well as free access to the Prime Video streaming service among many other features, will be offered free of charge to hourly employees.
In addition, hourly employees can now enroll in language classes through Amazon’s Career Choice educational benefit from day one. Meanwhile, drivers who work with Amazon’s Delivery Service Partners, or DSPs, will earn an average of nearly $22 per hour, a 7% increase from the previous average of $20.50, as a result of an incremental investment of more than $2.1 billion Amazon recently announced it is making into the program.
Amazon ranked second on LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2024 list, which cited the online giant's skills training and opportunities for growth as key differentiators.
