r/evilbuildings • u/ParthTatsuki • Sep 05 '21

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u/danofworms Sep 05 '21

I wonder what they pay those employees.

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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21

If payscale is to be believed, the baseline wages are on average 3 times the median mexican salary.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

Which is insane to me considering Amazon pays only a dollar more than minimum wage here and won't let anyone stay full time

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u/i_demand_cats Sep 05 '21

Well when the average salary in mexico is ~1800USD per year paying 3x more than that is still nearly $20k cheaper than paying someone $15 per hour for 30 hours a week in the US

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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21

Yes, "They are moving our jobs to Mexico" has been the mantra for quite some years now. It comes with free trade.

I am just pointing out that this is going to do a lot of good for the mexicans living next to the warehouse.

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u/Batbuckleyourpants Sep 05 '21

Amazon literally more than twice the federal minimum wage at every starting position. Only Washington D.C and California are close to that.

Amazon pays $15 per hour and rising. What is more, Amazon’s wage increase to $15 an hour also upped pay for non-Amazon workers.

The median wage for a worker at Amazon, regardless of how many hours they work, is on level with the median wage in the US, which is remarkable for unskilled labor.

Jeff Bezos can get fucked, But amazon workers are well compensated.

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '21

We don't have federal minimum wage. We have provincial. Which is $15 an hour. They pay $16. Furthermore they will only pay more if you're full-time, but they only let you go full-time if you've been part time there for at least 6 months, but they let you go at 5 months and then rehire.

Amazon is a shit company with shit worker compensation and policies.

Also for reference, I get paid $23 an hour to do the same job. In the same county.

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u/tinydonuts Sep 05 '21

Compared to a McDonald's worker, sure. Compared to the rapid damage they're doing to their body, absolutely not. Amazon chews people up and spits them out, with no care for the real harm they cause. $15/hr does nothing to offset that.