"Yes! Bayview," Karunungan shouts. His assignment is about three miles away. "Less driving is good. So, more money for me," he says. On Nov. 1 Amazon raised the minimum wage for all U.S. employees to $15 an hour, a move that was seen as a response to political pressures. The company said it's also giving raises to every operations and customer-service employee in hourly jobs, including part time and temps. Flex workers are not eligible because they're contractors. While shuttling a parcel of laundry detergent, kale chips and LaCroix in his Honda Civic, Karunungan offers some tips he's picked up from his time on the road. Amazon asks Flex drivers to deliver groceries from Whole Foods and meals from restaurants, but he usually picks orders from the warehouse because he says they pay more. Above all else, he says, Flex drivers need to move fast. Eric Carter Jr., an Amazon Flex driver from San Jose, California, says he has more luck during off hours. He wakes up at 3 a.m. to get ahead of the day's shifts - or "blocks," in Flex parlance, because Amazon pays per block of time. They're not paid for time spent waiting for an assignment. Amazon says Flex workers in some cities can avoid trips to the warehouse by picking food or grocery orders. In its study, Bernstein found that most Flex jobs are at the bottom of the $18 to $25 pay range Amazon advertises and that drivers will occasionally receive tips from customers when making restaurant or grocery runs. (Tips aren't available for standard package deliveries.) Amazon pays Flex workers twice a week via direct deposit to their bank accounts. Jodi Lynn Reeves signed up for Amazon Flex in Kansas City, Missouri, after she left her job at a company that collects coins from laundromats and struggled to find steady employment. She says she'd get a buzz when the money from Amazon would appear in her checking account every few days. But after two months, Lynn Reeves realized she was earning just $5.50 an hour driving long distances and paying tolls to deliver packages in her Ford Expedition, which gets about 13 miles per gallon. She estimates her fuel and tolls cost $50 for a four-hour shift and pushed her net income well below the U.S. minimum wage for employees, which is $7.25. high quality imitation bagscheapest louis vuitton bag
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