Amazon Raises Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour The pay change will take place Nov. 1 and apply to full-time, part-time and temporary workers. The e-commerce giant says the wage increase will benefit more than 250,000 employees and 100,000 seasonal workers. Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon This change will apply to Whole Foods and other subsidiaries. The company’s public policy team will also begin lobbying for an increase in the federal minimum wage, which has been $7.25 since 2009. Amazon has added more
American jobs in the past
decade than any other company.