Company interns at Amazon make greater than thrice as a lot as some warehouse staff, in accordance with knowledge launched on Tuesday.
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Amazon pays summer time interns greater than thrice as a lot as some warehouse and supply staff, in accordance with knowledge printed Tuesday.
The median company intern at Amazon — which presents internships all year long — rakes in $8,000 a month, in accordance with a brand new report from company evaluation website Glassdoor. That’s the equal of $96,000 per yr or $46.15 per hour based mostly on a 40-hour work week.
By comparability, Amazon’s warehouse and supply staff make a minimal of $15 an hour and the corporate says its median beginning wage for warehouse staff stands at $18 an hour.
The information on intern pay comes on the heels of Amazon warehouse staff in New York turning into the corporate’s first-ever US staff to unionize.
The Amazon Labor Union, which is representing 1000's of staff on the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, is pushing for Amazon to extend its company-wide minimal wage to $30.
Whereas that’s double Amazon’s present minimal pay, it’s nonetheless simply 65% of the corporate’s reported median intern pay.
Amazon didn't instantly reply to a request for remark.
Amazon’s internship program is the fifth-highest-paying within the US, in accordance with Glassdoor’s report.
On-line gaming firm Roblox takes the number-one spot with median month-to-month intern pay of $9,667 — the equal of $116,000 per yr — adopted by Uber and Capital One at $8,333 every and Salesforce at $8,167.
Amazon, Meta and Nvidia all have median month-to-month intern salaries of $8,000, adopted by LinkedIn, Expedia and HubSpot at $7,500 every.
Amongst different massive tech companies, Microsoft pays $7,366 monthly, adopted by Apple at $7,000 and Google at a paltry $6,454, in accordance with the report.
Funding financial institution Goldman Sachs, in the meantime, doesn’t even rank within the prime 25 highest-paying internships. The corporate is crushed by JPMorgan, Citi, Deutsche Financial institution and several other different rivals, in accordance with Glassdoor.
Glassdoor mentioned it based mostly the rankings on greater than 88,000 self-submitted pay experiences from present and former interns from February 2021 to February 2022.
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