Amazon is putting another $1.9 billion into its Delivery Service Partner program, and it expects the higher rates it pays those contractors to lift average driver pay nationwide by about $1 to nearly $24 an hour, though each DSP sets its own wages. Amazon is also adding surround-view cameras that warn drivers about cars, cyclists and pedestrians, which it plans to have in half of its Rivian vans by year-end, and it expects more than 20,000 pairs of its Smart Delivery Glasses in use by the end of 2027. The pay figures arrive weeks after New Jersey’s attorney general sued Amazon in August, alleging it effectively sets low pay and poor conditions for DSP drivers while treating the contractors as independent businesses.
