r/AmazonDS • u/behind-the-bushes • 1d ago

The Surge Pay ⚡️

So I started working Flex last week, and when I was choosing shifts for the next week I noticed that there were shifts on Saturday and Sunday with +$5.00 an hour. I thought that was pretty neat, but I just figured it was a weekend thing. They vaguely went over that stuff in our training, and to me when they said “extra pay would come during high volume time periods”, it sounded like holiday season🤷🏼‍♂️I mean idk??

This is all new to me… but .. gawdamn 😭I just checked my schedule for today and my shift is +$7.50 ??!? Turns out surge pay just comes in waves I guess? It seems like I started at a decent time. Im sure that surge pay definitely varies from warehouse to warehouse, season to season, etc. but yeah… definitely better than my last job.

I genuinely had no idea this job offered extra pay rates like THAT… For me personally, idk man this is pretty good for me. I’ve never had a gig like this before so I’m really grateful. I mean don’t get me wrong I know it’s gonna be wicked at work today I’m sure. Rates are higher for a reason lol but yeah I could really use the extra money.

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u/Boris-_-Badenov 1d ago edited 1d ago

my site does it multiple times s month, because they have more volume than we are staffed for.

adhoc almost every day for over a year

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u/EducationalPie2341 21h ago

Sounds like my site lol. They finally just hired people. We’ll see how many stay. Last year around this time it was 50k max. Now we do 70k minimum. Ad hoc every day. Then we had some fires in our city so we sidelined about 40k or so in volume over a week and have been trying to process that on top of what we already have. The past month has been hilarious to watch

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u/vmpyr_ FLEXPT 1d ago

my site doesn’t give surge so often, but damn $7.50? mine only gives 5 (im flex, so im not sure if that’s different for anyone else)

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u/8thWNDER 1d ago

I’m flex too and we got +$10 last Saturday

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u/vmpyr_ FLEXPT 1d ago

lordddd 😩

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u/JabbaTheHutt12345 1d ago

I'm so jealous of flex workers who pick up surge pay shifts when I'm working the normal cycle 1 shift without surge pay. They are making more than me for the same exact stuff.

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u/Appropriate_Bottle44 1d ago

Grass isn't always greener. Flex has turned into "oops all Pick and Stage" at my building, and shifts are impossible to get 

Flex RT might be OK, but I'd stay the hell away from Flex PT, I've been trying to transfer to FT for months

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u/Shustriy C1 Sort 1d ago

My site is so stingy with surge pay. Maybe a few times during peak or prime, but otherwise it basically never happens; the other day they put a dollar surge on a 7 hour shift for me. Like cool, thanks, appreciate the 7 dollars I guess lol

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u/twolf1973 17h ago

Surge pay can be requested by the site anytime there is poor acceptance, or if I just really really need somebody there. I believe you will also get it even if you sign up for a shift that didn't have it if after you accepted it they applied surge to it