Lexington, KY – Nationally Amazon.com is creating more than 70,000 full-time seasonal jobs across its U.S. fulfillment centers this holiday season in order to meet an increase in customer demand, a 40 percent rise over last year, according to a release from the company. Thousands of those jobs will be at centers in Kentucky, the release states.
In 2012, Amazon converted more than 7,000 temporary employees in the U.S. into full-time, regular roles after the holidays, and expects to do the likewise this year. On average, seasonal employees earn 94 percent of Amazon fulfillment center employee starting wages and are eligible for health care benefits, according to the company.
Amazon has added more than 40,000 jobs in the U.S. across all parts of the company since 2008.
For its regular, full-time fulfillment center positions, Amazon offers competitive hourly wages and a comprehensive benefits package, including healthcare, 401(k) and company stock awards.
Amazon also offers full-time employees programs like Career Choice, where the company will pre-pay up to 95 percent of tuition for courses related to in-demand fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a career at Amazon. Since the program’s launch last summer, employees are pursuing degrees in game design and visual communications, nursing, IT programming and radiology the release states.
Those interested can apply online at www.AmazonFulfillmentCareers.com.