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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by mrep on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @08:49AM (#28930017)
Quick estimate: amazon retail had about about 8 billion in operating income for the six months ending in just [0] so estimate 16 billion a year. They also had 1,335,000 employees [0]. At least for the US, their starting pay is $18 an hour [1]. 18 * 40 * 48 is $34,560. If we assume 1 million of those are front line workers, just doubling their pay would increase their costs by 34 billion dollars putting them in the red by 18 billion dollars a year. Obviously pay varies by location so not a perfect estimate.

[0]: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details...

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/business/exclusive-amazon-hikes-star....

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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by varispeed on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:48AM (#28942305)
> in operating income > so estimate 16 billion a year.

Amazon is in control of that number. They could easily quadruple that if they pulled money out of avoidance schemes and cut fake costs.

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Re:Amazon warehouse employee in Poland dies at work by mrep on Thursday October 21, 2021 @09:10AM (#28943849)
What? No they cannot. This is the document they report to investors, not the IRS, so it is global across all countries and subsidiaries. And their incentive is to report maximum profits to investors. What avoidance schemes and fake costs are you even thinking of?
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