Amazon now has five fulfillment centers in the country, and Vano told Insider that the company had since created 15,000 jobs throughout Mexico.

The report said 'that some sort of employment displacement is taking place, or that the growth in warehousing jobs is too limited to spill over into broad-based employment gains for the overall local economy.'Īmazon waded into the Mexican marketplace in 2015, a move that would help the company compete with its fellow e-commerce giant Walmart. The economists added that jobs needed to be high-paying for communities to see long-term economic growth.Īnd a report from the Economic Policy Institute in 2018 found that while there was a 30% increase in storage and warehouse jobs where a new Amazon warehouse went up, there wasn't always an overall increase in employment in the areas. Pay at Amazon's US warehouses starts at $15 an hour, and the company regularly touts what it says are competitive health-insurance and retirement benefits at its centers, including the Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse where employees voted not to unionize earlier this year.īut for some areas with new warehouses - such as in Davenport, Iowa - economists said Amazon's competitive wages could force local retailers to match that pay, which could lower employment rates since that limits how many people they can employ, the Quad-City Times reported.

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