Amazon and the Minimum Wage: What We Learned

Amazon's widely touted increase in its minimum wage was accompanied by an ending of their monthly bonus plan, which often added 8% to a worker's salary (16% during the holiday season), and its stock share program which recently gave workers shares worth $3,725 at two years of employment. I'm reasonably confident that most workers will still benefit on net, simply because the labor market is tight, but it's clear that the increase in the minimum wage was not as generous as it first appeared.