Facebook Will Increase Pay For Its Contractors in North America

Facebook will increase the hourly pay rate for thousands of contract workers across the United States, the company said today. From a report: Its base rate for contractors will rise from $15 an hour to $18, with slightly higher raises in cities with higher costs of living. The changes will go into effect by the middle of next year, the company said, and it will explore bringing similar raises to other sites around the world. The move comes after reporting from The Verge and others on the long-term impact of working as a contract moderator for Facebook, which has left some workers with symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Workers in larger metropolitan areas will get raises as well: from $18 to $20 an hour in Seattle and from $20 to $22 an hour in the Bay Area, New York City, and Washington, DC.

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[will_die]

This is for those lower level people janitoral, kitchen staff, content monitors, etc those that are employees of companies that facebook hired to do job. What facebook is doing is require that those companies pay the employees the $15 in addition the companies have to hire councelors for those that do content monitoring.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Is that all?

My roomate's aunt makes $110/hr on the internet. She has been out of a job for nine months but last month her paycheck was $19231 just working on the internet for a few hours.

lol, who would work for Facebook for that little?

[maybe111]

lol, who would work for Facebook for that little?

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[That YouTube Guy]

Tech support and cafeteria workers.

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[pak9rabid]

Janitors?

Wrong link

[manu0601]

The link about "long-term impact of working as a contract moderator for Facebook" is for a story about employees and contractors leaking data.

More pay

[AHuxley]

More ads.
Enjoy the ads.

And in other news ...

[PinkyGigglebrain]

Facebook announced that it will begin shifting more contract work to India.