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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by my_username_is_ on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:44PM (#19221278)
From what I understand, Amazon actually has trouble recruiting and retaining enough warehouse workers (especially during peak seasons). This is evident by them having a starting wage ($15/hr) that is more than double the minimum wage in many parts of the country
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by wil421 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:55PM (#19221384)
Glassdoor says the average was only $12 but in October they raised it to $15 minimum. Walmart’s low end is about $13 but the average is $17 an hour. Walmart has 1.5 million workers in the US, over 2 million worldwide.

The goods news is Amazon’s pay raise has made Walmart and Target increase their minimum wages as well.

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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by toomuchtodo on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:11PM (#19222534)
Reminder that the Amazon pay raise occurred because Bernie Sanders shamed them into it. Disney as well.
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by brianwawok on Friday February 22, 2019 @07:45AM (#19224825)
And they lowered stock benefits a few weeks later
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by JohnFen on Thursday February 21, 2019 @06:21PM (#19221601)
Average pay is a meaningless statistic unless combined with a number of other statistics. What would be interesting is knowing the mean pay.
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by smolsky on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:19PM (#19221954)
Ummm... you probably meant "median". Note, "average" is just "arithmetic mean".
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Re:Google Ends Forced Arbitration for Employees by BurningFrog on Friday February 22, 2019 @12:40AM (#19223393)
I guess we mean different things with "trouble".
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