Originally Posted by kane

There has been a lot of talk about this on Reddit over the last few days. Amazon pays bonuses to almost all employees. If you work in a warehouse you get a bonus just for having good attendance and you get another one based on how that warehouse as a whole did. You also get stock options that total roughly 1 share of stock per year (it's about $2K per share right now). All of that is going away.

Basically, what they said is if you are part time or new it is good for you because you make more, but if you have been there for a while it likely will screw you because most people already at or near $15 won't be getting any new money, but they will be losing the bonuses and the stock options.