Warehouse Work

In this white paper, we explore each of these topics and deliver strategies employers can implement to build these learnings into actions to attract, retain and engage on-floor warehouse workers.

Before claiming that warehouse jobs provide a pathway to the middle class, we need to assess whether official industry wage models accurately measure what workers in this sector actually earn.

Industry-wide wages are far higher than what blue-collar logistics workers actually make, according to Juan De Lara. He says this can be attributed to the fact that many warehouse workers aren't actually employed by major retailers such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target.