{"id":962509,"date":"2025-09-18T10:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962509"},"modified":"2025-09-18T10:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T05:11:07","slug":"amazon-spends-1-billion-to-increase-pay-and-lower-health-care-costs-for-us-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/18\/amazon-spends-1-billion-to-increase-pay-and-lower-health-care-costs-for-us-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon spends $1 billion to increase pay and lower health care costs for US workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Amazon says it&#8217;s making a $1 billion investment to raise wages and lower the cost of health care plans for its U.S. fulfillment and transportation workers.<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle-based company said Wednesday the average pay is increasing to more than $23 per hour and said that some of its most tenured employees will see an increase between $1.10 and $1.90 per hour. Full-time employees, on average, will see their pay increase by $1,600 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Amazon says it&#8217;s making a $1 billion investment to raise wages and lower the cost of health care plans for its U.S. fulfillment and transportation workers. The Seattle-based company said Wednesday the average pay is increasing to more than $23 per hour and said that some of its most tenured employees will see an increase between $1.10 and $1.90 per hour. Full-time employees, on average, will see their pay increase by $1,600 per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}