Amazon have offered 35p

[ivykaty44]

as a pay rise, 35 p is around a 7%-12% pay cut

they are taking the preverbial, they are seriously a multi billion dollar business and we are facing 15% inflation - these people are on £10.50-11 an hour and can't pay the bills

It’s around a 3.5% pay rise. So in line with other companies (and more than I got). Yes, its not in line with inflation, but if all companies gave everyone a payrise of 10% then inflation would spiral even more (all businesses need to find xx more £ to pay their staff, so put up their prices)

We've had wage stagnation for 20 years now so it isn't wages that are causing high inflation. The high inflation came first, now it's here, wages have to increase at at least the rate of inflation in order for workers not to be worse off.

And they still get paid more than care home staff...

That's what you call a piss take, and that's why I hate Amazon!

Why pick on Amazon, other large companies are no better, do places like Tesco pay any more

I hope all their employees take their experience and go and work for decent companies.

I'm not defending Amazon, but that is more than I've had in a pay rise for 12 years! Nearly half of those years I got nothing. We also can't pay our bills, and nor can a lot of other people. Amazon aren't responsible for that. How much they make or turnover is irrelevant - if you don't like capitalism, then do something about it, but Amazon are nothing more than an feature of the economic system. If not them, someone else. Capitalism exists to feed off those who produce for the benefit of those who don't. I don't recall the bit where it said they cared about workers.

So Amazon is paying more than care homes, many supermarkets, childcare etc. Hence why people choose to work there compared to the other businesses mentioned.

What’s your point?

Exactly!

3.5%? That's more than I'm getting.

Bezos is one of the (if not the) richest people on the planet. Rather than making some people so phenomenally wealthy, the people who generate that wealth should be properly rewarded. Look at the profits of the energy companies, and yet bills are rocketing. What's going on here? Something is not right about the way the economy is going. You would have thought that people realised what the really important jobs were during lockdown: clue, not the politicians, who have been awarded a pay rise well above what anyone else is getting.

"The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) said basic pay would rise from £81,932 to £84,144 in April – a move likely to spark outrage given the cost of living squeeze faced by millions of families." from The Independent about the MPs' pay increase.

It’s not a race to the bottom! Normal workers wanting to fight for a rise that is in-line with inflation isn’t wrong. Anything less is basically a pay cut. It’s not greedy to want a wage which will let you feed your family.

It’s more than I’m getting.

@CactusBlossom if those figures are correct that equates to a 2.7% increase for MPs, so not more than the Amazon worker's 3.5%.

I work for a high street bank, banks are benefitting from higher interest rates, as the gap between what they charge on loans and pay on savings widens. I got 1%.

But that is the trouble with a percentage increase, isn't it? A small percentage on a higher amount works out as more than the same percentage on a smaller amount. How they scrape by on £80+k is a mystery...

So many places are giving shit payrises

Care staff are getting more than that round here as there aren’t enough to go Round. If employers don’t pay enough they lose staff and are then forced to raise wages.
i don’t think everyone can have a wage rise in line with inflation as inflation will just increase more. The government need to sort out companies like Amazon not paying their fare share of tax, and of course we could all not shop with Amazon and shop with independent retailers if we don’t agree with it.. Amazon isn’t even particularly cheap these days it’s just convenient

Asda are paying 44p extra an hour. That's £11.27 for day shifts (Greater London)

It’s more than I’m getting.

and are you sitting back and accepting it or protesting?

@MissGlitterSparkles why do you believe the ole "pay rises make the prices rise" the prices have risen whilst pay has in reality been cut - so what your saying doesn't actually make sense, as pay hasn't risen and prices have

At least they’re getting a pay rise soon. I work in a school office, earn the same hourly rate as Amazon workers & we had to wait a year for the last one to be sorted & agreed by the frigging unions. Guess we won’t be getting one anytime soon.

My pay went from £9.75 per hour to... wait for it... £9.80 per hour. That was for a 5/5 performance review of "exceptional performance", my colleagues who got 4's or 3's got a 2p rise, and 0p rise.

I assume the OP is about the warehouse staff? The vast majority of Amazon's profits come from the AWS cloud hosting business. The warehouse side isn't very profitable so that needs to be taken into account when talking about Amazon as a multi billion company.