RALEIGH – Amazon says it will hire 1,000 workers in the Triangle for a variety of roles with pay on average at “more than $19 per hour,” the internet giant announced early Thursday. Sign-up bonuses as much as $1,000 also are available.

“Thousands” of jobs also are being added across North Carolina, Amazon said.

The local jobs are part of 150,000 Amazon says it is hiring as part of efforts to prepare for the holiday shopping season. That’s the same number Amazon added last year.

Amazon also is adding full-time and part-time positions in sorting and shipping. It also says benefits are offered.

Amazon operates a number of facilities in the Triangle, including a mammoth warehouse in Garner, and other sites across the state. The company recently closed one in Durham and is facing a unionization effort at the Garner site.

“We value our seasonal employees at Amazon by offering well-paying jobs with a variety of schedules,” said Nariq Jones, a Human Resources leader at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Garner, in a statement.  “As demand ramps up, these employees play an important role by making sure we’re delivering packages and smiles to our customers throughout the 2022 holiday season.”

Amazon’s workforce in the state soared to more than 32,000 full- and part-time jobs in the period between 2010 and the end of 2021, a spokesperson for Amazon told WRAL TechWire in March.  According to the spokesperson, the company had made investments in excess of $5.5 billion, as of the end of 2021, with plans to continue to hire.

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