{"name":"Amazon Prime Air Hiring Data (live data, 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026)","question":"What is Amazon Prime Air hiring for: how many roles, which kinds of work, at what advertised pay, and open to whom?","source":"Every day this site reads the public job boards of the robot training employers and programs it follows. Every Amazon Prime Air figure is drawn solely from its own public listings, with full descriptions and application forms read wherever its job board provides them.","publisher":"RobotTraining.jobs","url":"https://robottraining.jobs/research/amazon-prime-air-hiring-data","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"RobotTraining.jobs (2026). Amazon Prime Air Hiring Data (live data, 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026). https://robottraining.jobs/research/amazon-prime-air-hiring-data (accessed 18 Oct 2026)","frozen_at":null,"report":"amazon-prime-air-hiring-data","method":1,"edition":null,"window":{"from":"2026-09-20","to":"2026-10-17","days":28},"computedAt":"2026-10-18T16:38:57.313Z","summary":"Amazon Prime Air had 68 robot training roles open on 17 Oct 2026 (6.6% of the market, the 3rd largest of 73 employers), 70.6% of them in Robot Fleet Operations; 97.1% carried an hourly rate (median $27/hr), while all took applicants only from named countries, the United States above all.","stats":[{"id":"open-roles","value":"68","label":"jobs live on 17 Oct 2026, 6.6% of all listingst","figure":"compared-with-market"},{"id":"median-pay","value":"$27/hr","label":"median advertised hourly pay","figure":"pay-against-market"},{"id":"location-rule","value":"100%","label":"of its open roles take applications from named countries only","figure":"location-rules"},{"id":"main-kind","value":"71%","label":"of its open roles in Robot Fleet Operations","figure":"kinds-of-work"}],"findings":[{"id":"size","figure":"compared-with-market","text":"On 17 Oct 2026, Amazon Prime Air had 68 open roles: 6.6% of the 1,029 open at the 73 employers RobotTraining.jobs tracks, the 3rd highest count."},{"id":"main-kind","figure":"kinds-of-work","text":"70.6% of its open roles are in Robot Fleet Operations, a kind in which Amazon Prime Air accounts for 21.1% of every open role (the 2nd largest share among 20 employers); across the board it posts in 2 of the 7 kinds of work that had openings."},{"id":"pay-level","figure":"pay-against-market","text":"97.1% of its open roles put an hourly rate in the listing; the median is $27/hr (middle half $27 to $34), compared with $27/hr for priced roles at other employers."},{"id":"pay-within-kind","figure":"pay-against-market","text":"Holding the kind of work fixed (2 kinds have enough rates on both sides), Amazon Prime Air's advertised median sits 10.3% above other employers', with a higher median in both; AV & Drone Operators shows the biggest difference ($35/hr against $28/hr)."},{"id":"access","figure":"location-rules","text":"None of its 68 open roles are open to people applying from anywhere (0.3% at other employers); all are restricted to certain countries, the United States chief among them (named by all 68)."},{"id":"turnover","figure":"listing-flow","text":"Between 20 Sep 2026 and 17 Oct 2026, Amazon Prime Air put up 0 new listings and took down 6; tracking of it began on 15 Oct 2026."},{"id":"requirements","figure":"requirements","text":"Of the 68 roles Amazon Prime Air lists with a full description, 0.0% require a college degree, 76.5% a driver's license and 0.0% a background check (at other employers that publish descriptions: 5.8%, 51.1% and 19.8%)."}],"figures":[{"id":"compared-with-market","title":"Amazon Prime Air next to the rest of the market","question":"Next to every other robot training employer, how big is Amazon Prime Air, what does it pay, who can apply and how fast do its listings turn over?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Measure","unit":"text"},{"key":"platform","label":"Amazon Prime Air","unit":"text"},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers","unit":"text"},{"key":"rank","label":"Rank (1st = top)","unit":"text"}],"rows":[{"key":"open","cells":{"group":"Jobs live on 17 Oct 2026","platform":"68","others":"961","rank":"3rd of 73"}},{"key":"market-share","cells":{"group":"Share of the whole market","platform":"6.6%","others":"93.4%","rank":"3rd of 73"}},{"key":"new","cells":{"group":"Newly posted in this period","platform":"0","others":"106","rank":"joint 27th of 73"}},{"key":"kinds","cells":{"group":"Kinds of work listed","platform":"2","others":"7","rank":"joint 12th of 73"}},{"key":"stated","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Open roles with a posted hourly rate","platform":"97.1%","others":"15.7%","rank":"3rd of 10"}},{"key":"median-pay","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Median advertised pay","platform":"$27/hr","others":"$27/hr","rank":"joint 3rd of 7"}},{"key":"worldwide","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Open roles accepting any country","platform":"0.0%","others":"0.3%","rank":"joint 1st of 10"}},{"key":"days-listed","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Median days up before removal","platform":"n/a","others":"29.3 days","rank":"n/a"}}],"sample":"Snapshot at the close of 17 Oct 2026: 68 open roles at Amazon Prime Air and 961 across the 72 other employers RobotTraining.jobs tracks, with listings drawn from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026.","notes":["\"Other employers\" pools every remaining employer tracked over the same dates: their counts are added together and their medians come from all of their roles at once.","Ranks run across the 73 employers that had open roles. An employer is ranked on a measure only once it clears that measure's floor: 10 open roles for a share, 8 posted rates for a pay median and 10 removed roles with a known listing date for days listed. On days listed, the longest comes first.","Built from listings alone, as they appear on the employer's public job board."]},{"id":"kinds-of-work","title":"What Amazon Prime Air hires for","question":"What kinds of robot training work does Amazon Prime Air post, and how big a slice of each kind's openings belongs to it?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Kind of work","unit":"text"},{"key":"open","label":"Open roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"marketShare","label":"Its slice of all openings in the kind","unit":"percent"},{"key":"rank","label":"Rank within this job type","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"fleet-ops","href":"/roles/fleet-ops","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Robot Fleet Operations","open":48,"share":70.6,"marketShare":21.1,"rank":"2nd of 20","median":27}},{"key":"av-drone-operator","href":"/roles/av-drone-operator","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"AV & Drone Operators","open":20,"share":29.4,"marketShare":4.2,"rank":"4th of 29","median":35}}],"sample":"Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles at the close of 17 Oct 2026. Market shares divide by the 1,029 roles open that day across all 73 employers.","notes":["Every role is sorted into one of the site's seven kinds of robot training work, based on what its title and description say.","Ranks within a kind count only the employers with open roles in that kind. No median is shown below 8 roles with a posted hourly rate."]},{"id":"pay-against-market","title":"What Amazon Prime Air advertises it pays","question":"Does Amazon Prime Air put a rate on its listings, and does it pay more or less than other employers for the same kind of work?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Roles","unit":"text"},{"key":"stated","label":"Stating an hourly rate","unit":"percent"},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","bar":true},{"key":"band","label":"Its middle half","unit":"text","secondary":true},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers' median","unit":"usd"},{"key":"gap","label":"Its median against theirs","unit":"percent","signed":true},{"key":"priced","label":"Its postings with a rate","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"all","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"All its open roles","stated":97.1,"median":27,"band":"$27 to $34","others":27,"gap":1.8,"priced":66}},{"key":"within-kind","cells":{"group":"Same kinds of work only (2)","stated":null,"median":null,"band":null,"others":null,"gap":10.3,"priced":66}},{"key":"fleet-ops","href":"/roles/fleet-ops","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Robot Fleet Operations","stated":97.9,"median":27,"band":"$27 to $27","others":26,"gap":4.3,"priced":47}},{"key":"av-drone-operator","href":"/roles/av-drone-operator","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"AV & Drone Operators","stated":95,"median":35,"band":"$35 to $35","others":28,"gap":25.3,"priced":19}}],"sample":"On 17 Oct 2026, 66 of Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles carried an hourly rate, against 151 of 961 at other employers.","notes":["Pay means the hourly rate written into the posting; where it gives a range, the midpoint is used. The middle half spans the 25th to 75th percentile.","Medians appear only from 8 posted rates up, and a comparison needs that many on both sides. The same-kinds row averages the gap over every kind where both sides clear that bar, weighting each kind by how many priced roles the employer has in it. That way an employer that simply lists higher-paid work does not look like it pays more for identical work."]},{"id":"location-rules","title":"Where applicants for Amazon Prime Air roles can be based","question":"Can people apply to Amazon Prime Air from any country, or only from certain ones?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Location rule","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its open roles","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Share on other employers","unit":"percent"}],"rows":[{"key":"global","cells":{"group":"Open worldwide","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0.3}},{"key":"exclude","cells":{"group":"Worldwide except listed countries","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0}},{"key":"include","cells":{"group":"Only listed countries","roles":68,"share":100,"others":99.7}},{"key":"unknown","cells":{"group":"No rule stated","roles":0,"share":0,"others":0}}],"sample":"Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles on 17 Oct 2026, set beside the 961 open at other employers.","notes":["Each rule comes from the location written in the posting; if the posting says nothing, the employer's own statement about where it hires fills the gap. The rule only covers where applications are accepted. Tax, payment and work-permit rules may still apply."]},{"id":"countries-named","title":"Where Amazon Prime Air's country-limited roles are open","question":"Which countries appear when Amazon Prime Air restricts a role to certain places?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Country","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Limited roles naming it","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its country-limited jobs","unit":"percent"},{"key":"sole","label":"Open only there","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"US","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"United States","roles":68,"share":100,"sole":68}}],"sample":"On 17 Oct 2026, 68 of Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles took applications only from named countries, and 68 of those named just one. 1 country in total.","notes":["A role that lists several countries is counted under each one. \"Open only there\" counts roles whose list holds this country and no other."]},{"id":"listing-flow","title":"New and taken-down listings at Amazon Prime Air","question":"How many roles did Amazon Prime Air put up, and how many came down?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Measure","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers","unit":"count","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"open-start","cells":{"group":"Open as 20 Sep 2026 began","roles":null,"others":644}},{"key":"new","cells":{"group":"New listings","roles":0,"others":106}},{"key":"removed","cells":{"group":"Removed listings","roles":6,"others":106}},{"key":"open-end","cells":{"group":"Open as 17 Oct 2026 closed","roles":68,"others":961}}],"sample":"Amazon Prime Air's listings, 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026 (tracking began mid-window).","notes":["A new listing is a role that first appeared during the window, not counting the employer's opening week in this dataset. A removed listing dropped out of the feed during the window. One role can be both.","Tracking of Amazon Prime Air started on 15 Oct 2026, so roles that showed up that week are treated as its back catalogue rather than new listings; there is also no opening count for it.","The opening count for other employers skips any employer whose tracking began inside the window."]},{"id":"days-listed","title":"Time online for Amazon Prime Air's removed roles","question":"Before Amazon Prime Air took a role down, how long had it been posted?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Days listed","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Removed roles","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Share on other employers","unit":"percent","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"under-7","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"Under 7 days","roles":0,"share":0,"others":11.7}},{"key":"7-13","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"7 to 13 days","roles":0,"share":0,"others":6.4}},{"key":"14-29","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"14 to 29 days","roles":0,"share":0,"others":34}},{"key":"30-59","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"30 to 59 days","roles":6,"share":100,"others":14.9}},{"key":"60-plus","thin":true,"cells":{"group":"60 days or more","roles":0,"share":0,"others":33}}],"sample":"6 roles with a known listing date that Amazon Prime Air took down from 20 Sep 2026 to 17 Oct 2026; other employers: 29.3 days across 94 roles.","notes":["Days listed run from the posting date on the job board (or, failing that, the role's first day in the feed) to the last day the role was seen. Back-catalogue roles with no posting date are excluded.","No median is given below 10 removed roles. Employers never say why a role came down: it could have been filled, put on hold or closed."]},{"id":"title-words","title":"What Amazon Prime Air calls the work","question":"Does Amazon Prime Air title its roles operator, teleoperator, driver, technician or data collector, and how often each?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Title word","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its open roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"others","label":"Share on other employers","unit":"percent"},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"none","cells":{"group":"None of these words","roles":68,"share":100,"others":0.3,"median":27}}],"sample":"Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles on 17 Oct 2026, sorted by the words in each title, using the word list from the job titles report.","notes":["One title can contain more than one of these words ('Robot Teleoperator (AI & Robotics)') and counts under each, so the shares can total over 100%. Matching is on whole words and ignores case."]},{"id":"machines-named","title":"Robots and vehicles Amazon Prime Air hires for","question":"Which robots and vehicles does Amazon Prime Air name in its job titles?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"Robot or vehicle","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its open roles","unit":"count","bar":true},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles","unit":"percent"},{"key":"marketShare","label":"Its share of every title naming this robot or vehicle","unit":"percent"},{"key":"median","label":"Its median per hour","unit":"usd","secondary":true}],"rows":[{"key":"aerial","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Drones and aircraft","roles":20,"share":29.4,"marketShare":30.3,"median":35}}],"sample":"On 17 Oct 2026, 20 of Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles had a robot or vehicle in the title, 1 different ones in all.","notes":["Titles are matched on whole words against the robots and equipment report's list. A title that names two counts twice; a role that involves a robot or vehicle but never names one in its title is missed."]},{"id":"requirements","title":"What roles at Amazon Prime Air ask for","question":"Do the roles Amazon Prime Air lists require a degree, a licence, a minimum age, experience or checks?","columns":[{"key":"group","label":"The description","unit":"text"},{"key":"roles","label":"Its roles","unit":"count"},{"key":"share","label":"Share of its roles read","unit":"percent","bar":true},{"key":"others","label":"Other employers with descriptions","unit":"percent"}],"rows":[{"key":"any-degree","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Requires a college degree (alone or with an alternative)","roles":0,"share":0,"others":5.8}},{"key":"drivers-license","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Requires a driver's license","roles":52,"share":76.5,"others":51.1}},{"key":"credential","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Requires a CDL, Part 107 or pilot license","roles":20,"share":29.4,"others":7.7}},{"key":"age","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"States a minimum age","roles":0,"share":0,"others":17.4}},{"key":"lift","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"States a weight to lift","roles":68,"share":100,"others":23.9}},{"key":"years","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Requires years of work experience","roles":0,"share":0,"others":14.5}},{"key":"hours","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"States weekly hours","roles":0,"share":0,"others":7.3}},{"key":"checks","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Requires a background check","roles":0,"share":0,"others":19.8}},{"key":"drug","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Mentions a drug test","roles":0,"share":0,"others":18.4}},{"key":"shifts","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Mentions night, weekend or rotating shifts","roles":68,"share":100,"others":40.2}},{"key":"contractor","thin":false,"cells":{"group":"Mentions contractor or freelance terms","roles":0,"share":0,"others":3.5}}],"sample":"Full descriptions for 68 of Amazon Prime Air's 68 open roles on 17 Oct 2026, set against 961 roles from the 72 other employers and programs whose boards publish descriptions.","notes":["Read with the requirements report's readers: degrees, licences, age, lifting, years and background checks count only as requirements (a preference does not count); hours, drug tests, shifts and terms count wherever the description mentions them.","Years and hours get a median only when 5 or more roles state them. For an hours range, the lower number is used."]}]}