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4,000 Amazon Holiday Jobs in Delaware

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Amazon will be hiring around 4-thousand people in Delaware for the holiday season.

Nationwide the figure is 120-thousand.

Amazon has two fulfillment centers in the First State.

One is Middletown with over a million square feet and another in New Castle.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that the jobs pay around $13 an hour.

The paper notes that many of them can turn into regular full-time positions after the holidays.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.