On: Amazon Career Choice Program

[stephengillie]

In Amazon's home state of WAshington, 1 year of tuition costs:

  Institution	Comm. Coll[1]	% of $2000	University[2]	% of $2000
  Resident	$4,000		50%		$10,347		19.3%
  Non-Resident	$9,235		21.7%		$27,831		7.2%

[1]http://www.sbctc.edu/college/f_tuition.aspx

[2]http://admit.washington.edu/Paying/Cost

[bethling → stephengillie]

If you're looking at it full time, then yes, but my partner just finished her part time AA in WA, and the peak we had for tuition/fees/books in any one year (she did it in a little over 3 years) was $2100 (the link you had shows the maximum that a community college can charge for 3 15 credit terms, not all charge that). If we had spread it out over 4 years, $2000 would have easily covered it all.

Not to say that this is an people will be lining up to get a job at an Amazon warehouse for, but it is something that can help some employees get a little ahead.

[lxm → stephengillie]

This includes colleges with football teams and Olympic swimming pools. As others have noted, education credits in WA tend to be cheap when it's just the education.

Not that it matters for home state advantage - their warehouse workers are spread across the country, not in the most north-western point of the continental US.

[pkamb → lxm]

Go Huskies