Amazon is hiring 9,000 new employees in Virginia this holiday season. WMRA's Randi B. Hagi reports.
Amazon announced in a press release on Tuesday that it is currently hiring 250,000 people across the country for picking, sorting, and shipping roles as the company gears up for the holiday shopping season. The jobs include full-time, part-time, and seasonal positions paying between $17 and $28 an hour.
Nine thousand of the positions are in Virginia, with facilities in:
- Richmond looking to hire about 3,000,
- Hampton Roads, 2,500, and
- Fishersville, 500.
The fulfillment center in Fishersville opened this spring with about 200 employees and 300 open positions.
The news of the holiday hires comes just as the Bureau of Labor Statistics released reports on job openings and unemployment. In Virginia, the number of job openings went down by 45,000 over the month of July, the second-highest drop of any state in the country. Unemployment in Virginia has also been inching down. It was 2.5% this August, slightly down from 2.8% the year before.
