Thread: Amazon ups hourly wage to $15, will advocate for higher pay
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Old 10-03-2018, 06:19 AM   #16
John F
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
@John F: The median theoretically allows half the workers to be making less than $15. In practice not so much. It is a fair assumption that half the workers at Amazon are warehouse worker bees? Then minimum and median is practically the same. Upper management never comes into play with median calculations, not even the programmers unless you talk about a software only company (Amazon is not). Lower management, aka shift supervisors in a warehouse, will also be a small enough number to not show up in median calculations.
Well if you are arguing that the $15+ is representative of a warehouse employee, than I have to question where the $15+ came from, since doing quick googles came up with lower numbers, for example:

"... Meanwhile, Amazon’s warehouse workers make an average of $13 an hour, according to Glassdoor. Compare that figure to Walmart—not exactly a beacon of employee satisfaction—which pays its distribution center employees an average of $17 an hour, according to Payscale. ..."
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