Editor's note: This story has been corrected to include correct information on how much the minimum wage is going up in Delaware next year.

Delaware's Amazon employees are getting a raise.

The e-tailing giant said Tuesday it would increase its minimum wage Nov. 1 to $15 for all U.S. full-time, part-time, seasonal and temporary employees, including temps hired by agencies.

Employees at Whole Foods, which Amazon now owns, will get the same pay hike.

Amazon does not disclose site- or state-specific employment figures, but according to recent reports, the company employs about 3,000 full-time workers in Delaware, with about 2,600 of those at the Middletown Fulfillment Center.

It has another facility in New Castle, while the nearest Whole Foods is in Glenn Mills, Pennsylvania.

The wage hike will benefit more than 350,000 workers nationally, which includes full-time, part-time, temporary and seasonal positions, according to Amazon.

Amazon's hourly operations and customer service employees, some of whom already make $15 per hour, will also see a wage increase, the Seattle company said.

Last August in Delaware, Amazon hired hundreds of new "associates," who receive inventory, as well as pick, pack and ship customers' orders. Those jobs have typically started at about $12 an hour and offer health and other employee benefits.

In October, it hired an additional 4,000 seasonal employees to work in Delaware during the busy holiday season. Those jobs have typically paid about $13 an hour.

Minimum wage in the First State went up to $8.75 Monday and will increase to $9.25 on Oct. 1, 2019.

Gov. John Carney toured the Amazon facility in Middletown for the first time two weeks ago. The highlight of the tour was the Make-On-Demand facility, which recently underwent a $1 million expansion that separated the printing process from the finishing process.

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The center has the capacity to produce up to 50,000 books a day using 25 black-and-white printers and 14 color printers.

"A facility like this that employs more than 2,000 people is critical for our state," Carney said during his tour. "It's a reminder of what kind of a workforce we have to develop in Delaware."

Amazon, which has more than 575,000 employees nationally, has been facing political and economic pressure to raise pay. In addition to the wage hike, a public policy team employed by Amazon will begin pushing for an increase in the U.S. federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the company announced.

"We intend to advocate for a minimum wage increase that will have a profound impact on the lives of tens of millions of people and families across this country," Jay Carney, senior vice president of Amazon global corporate affairs, said in a statement.

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Amazon has faced criticism from labor rights groups and others over pay and working conditions at its warehouses. One of its harshest critics is Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. His Twitter account, which has nearly 9 million followers, frequently points out the disparity between Amazon's median employee pay and the vast fortune of CEO Jeff Bezos.

Pay for workers at Amazon can vary by location. Starting pay is $10 an hour at a warehouse in Austin, Texas, and $13.50 an hour in Robbinsville, New Jersey, which is comparable to what workers in Delaware make.

The median pay for an Amazon employee last year was $28,446 worldwide, according to government filings, which includes full-time, part-time and temporary workers.

Amazon has revolutionized how people shop online and is the world's dominant internet retailer. In two decades the company expanded far beyond its bookseller beginnings, combining its world-spanning retail operation with less flashy but very profitable advertising and cloud computing businesses. Last month it became the second publicly traded company to be worth $1 trillion, hot on the heels of Apple.

But it shares one potential hurdle that is growing higher for almost all employers: a tightening labor market.

The last hiring figures from the U.S. Commerce Department showed that in August, the pace of hiring rose again and wages grew at their fastest pace in nine years.

Competition among companies for qualified workers is growing more intense, and they are increasingly willing to pay.

Last fall Target committed to giving its employees $15 per hour by the end of 2020. And in January Walmart raised its starting wages to $11 per hour.

But corporate profits in the U.S. are booming, and that wealth isn't being spread out nearly fast enough for many.

On Tuesday, fast food workers in Michigan are going to kick off a series of protests in the Midwest and elsewhere around the country in support of unions and a $15 minimum wage.

Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, said Tuesday that while Amazon's wage hike is a politically savvy move, it's also a change made out of economic necessity. With a healthy U.S. economy, Americans looking for work have an increasing number of job options, so Amazon has to find ways to entice people to join its company.

Amazon is also increasing wages in some areas outside the U.S. The company announced that the minimum wage will be 10.50 pounds an hour in London (about $13.50 in U.S. dollars) and 9.50 pounds in other parts of the UK. The increases will include 17,000 Amazon employees as well as 20,000 seasonal workers.

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This story includes reporting by the Associated Press. Contact Jessica Bies at (302) 324-2881 or jbies@delawareonline.com. Follow her on Twitter @jessicajbies.