Amazon employee benefits can vary based on factors like work location, scheduled work hours, length of employment, and job status (e.g. seasonal or temporary). The benefits described here apply to Class F (40 hours/week), Class R (30-39 hours/week), and Class H (20-29 hours/week), excluding those who work in Hawaii. View the benefits overview for employees who work in Hawaii.
Amazon offers a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, starting on the first day of employment. We strive to be Earth’s best employer by providing a comprehensive benefits package that helps protect employees’ health, family, and finances.
The following benefits are effective from January 1 to December 31, 2024.
Amazon has a specialized team dedicated to supporting employees and their family members who have been diagnosed with cancer.
The Amazon CARES program provides personalized assistance to help navigate work, care, benefits, and resources during cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
Amazon offers digital physical therapy services to employees and their dependents enrolled in eligible medical plans. The personalized care and exercise programs help treat joint, nerve, and muscle pain from the comfort of home.
Additionally, all Amazon employees and family members 18 and older can access a free pain prevention program, regardless of benefits eligibility.
If you or a covered dependent is living with diabetes, you can get preferred diabetes testing supplies at no cost, and free coaching through your Amazon Aetna, Cigna, or Premera medical plan.
Amazon offers employees low-cost prescription medication through Amazon Pharmacy. You and your family members enrolled in an Amazon Aetna, Cigna, or Premera medical plan can get up to a 90-day supply of preferred brand and generic medications with savings of $5 on 30-day prescriptions and $10 on 90-day prescriptions. Many chronic-condition medications are also available at no cost.
Amazon’s Anytime Pay benefit allows employees to access the money they’ve earned before their next paycheck. With Anytime Pay, employees can access up to 70% of their eligible earned pay whenever they choose, at no cost, and in real time.
Brightside Financial Care is a free program that connects eligible employees to a dedicated financial assistant to discuss their financial needs, including managing expenses, building savings, and eliminating debt. The financial assistant will provide options and real solutions to help employees achieve their short-term and long-term financial goals.
Brightside’s services are secure, confidential, and free for US hourly full-time employees and their adult household members.
With a focus on family care, Amazon offers extensive benefits, including paid parental leave, adoption and surrogacy assistance, and fertility support. We celebrate the growth of all our employees’ families through a variety of benefits. We offer up to 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt. Our Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer.
Plus, our Ramp Back program offers birth parents eight consecutive weeks of flexibility and partial work hours as they readjust to work schedules as new parents.
All Class F (40 hours/week) and Class R (30 to 39 hours/week) employees are eligible for leaves as summarized below. Your health care, life insurance, 401(k), and vacation benefits under Amazon plans will continue during the following:
Amazon welcomes refugees from all over the world, and has programs in place to help ease their transition to their new homeland. Welcome Door is an Amazon benefit program that offers resources and support for refugee and humanitarian-based immigrant employees, including citizenship assistance and free legal support.
U.S. Welcome Door participants are also eligible for reimbursement for Employment Authorization Document (EAD) renewal fees, which, on average, cost approximately $500 every other year.
Commuter benefits can help you get to and from work in a variety of ways. Amazon’s commuting methods aim to be environmentally friendly and community-minded. Employees can use public transportation to get to the office, and if they live nearby, they can walk or bike.
Amazon offers a variety of perks to make the commute more sustainable and convenient. Here are some highlights of our commuter benefits:
Metropolitan Park has secure, transportation-related features and spaces, including 620 bike racks, two bike repair and wash stations, a half-mile of protected bike lanes, and locker rooms with showers. The complex has four levels of below-grade parking with 290 electric vehicle charging stations. Pedestrian pathways that provide safe walkways for employees walking to work and commuting via the Metro.
“Being on the water like that in a small boat, you really see that a city is so much more than just the individual. It’s about all the people around you, the buildings, the cars, the bikes. When I finally get to my desk, I can be like, ‘Yeah, I saw this when I was paddling. I could see my building.”
“As a bike commuter, one of my favorite parts of the Day 1 building at Amazon’s Puget Sound headquarters is the bike cage. It has amenities like bike repair stations that come in handy when you have a flat tire, charging stations for e-bikes, and lockers and showers to freshen up before starting the day.”
Learn about the ways our employees are empowered to use their benefits to ensure their lives are healthy, productive, and meaningful.
CraigMy leaders and team have done anything and everything a person could ever ask throughout my cancer journey. They sent my family meals and paid for soup for me during the times I couldn’t eat solid food. And at work, they were my body when my body failed me. With the help of my team, my career progression didn’t stop. I was even able to get promoted while undergoing treatment.
Learn how Amazon supports employees and families during cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery.
PhyllisI went through an embryo retrieval, had genetic testing done on each, and had them frozen. My husband and I miraculously got pregnant naturally after years of infertility—but because of Amazon’s family building benefits, we still have embryos frozen and an opportunity to have a second child. That’s something we didn’t ever think was possible for us.
Learn about our family building benefits.
TrixieI came to Amazon because of the benefits. I could not have done my gender-affirming surgery without them. I love the people I work with. They’ve been so supportive of me and my journey. I feel welcomed, I feel included, I feel seen, and able to be me.
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