Amazon says it’s raising its average starting pay for frontline workers from $18 to $19 a hour.
That could help it attract more employees in a tight labor market as the holiday season approaches.
The company said that beginning in October, warehouse and transportation workers would earn between $16 and $26 an hour, depending on their position and location in the U.S.
The minimum wage at the Seattle-based e-commerce company, which employed roughly 1.5 million workers as of the end of June, will remain $15 an hour.
Amazon had raised its average hourly pay to $18 an hour last year. It says the new raise would cost it $1 billion in the next year.
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