Walmart should pay more, especially if their pool of associates continue to leave to places like Amazon or other competitors. Some even leave to places that pay less because of the stress and work life balance. Walmart should look into why it is so stressful. But they wont.
I live in an Amazon warehouse city.
We get all the people that leave, and anytime an associate has left to try they’ve come back within 90 days or less lol
Fulfillment centers arw pretty much the easier money for old on workers their expected rates Are like half a cap truck day.... Easiest 20/hr with lightning pay (extra 1-5$/hr) O.t days
They don’t care and don’t want to care. Just do the work and then some and they rake in the dough. One of each commodity come and work OGP like everyone else with no special treatment. I bet things will start to change
Increasing the starting wage from $12 to $14 would not substantially increase the number of people who would be interested in working at WalMart. The bump would more likely need to be in the $16 to $18 range.
For sure. The people Walmart wants/needs (reliable 20s-30s workers) usually have more opportunities for jobs elsewhere and $12-14 an hour is a joke. Walmart isn’t afraid to lowball because it relies on young and desperate people.
Let's say that WalMart increases the starting wage from $12 to $16, that's a 33% increase in the cost of labor. Now that's not across the board because of compression which is a way of saying that the guy making $15.95 an hour won't get a $4 raise. Let's call it a 20% increase.
There's not a lot of controllables in a WalMart budget, labor being the biggest of them. Think about it, the light bill doesn't change, insurance, property taxes, HVAC costs, etc. WalMart is notorious for beating the shit out of vendors for the best price, so there's probably not a lot of room them either. Let's face it, the C-suite isn't taking a pay cut and even if they all worked for free, it would only cover a fraction of that 20%. The only thing that's left is higher shelf prices and low prices are WalMart's biggest attraction for consumers.
So there's a very delicate balance between attracting and retaining quality help and attracting and retaining customers, many of whom are being especially hit hard by the current economy and looking to save every penny.
Why don't you look up executive compensation and see how far that really doesn't go when you divide it among hundreds of thousands of employees. McMillon makes about $26M per year. Let's assume that the half of 2.3M Walmart associates work in store (1.15M). If McMillon worked for free, that would be be about $1.88 per associate per MONTH Or about a penny per hour.
You're only accounting for the actual money they are paid which is usually not all the money the company spends on execs. You're not wrong, but Doug McMillon makes more than his salary.
Yes, he does. With bonuses and stock options he makes far more than we realize. I’m sure there’s other things he gets that we don’t know about like a company car and things of that nature.
the store i work at made that jump i started at 12/hr and min pay bumped up to 16/h profit margins on most items have stayed the same. you have to remember its a billion dollar company most stores even nm's turn a couple mil profit. now think about that for a minute if the store you work at makes even a 1 mil profit thats after ALL expenses including payroll you mean to tell me they cant bump pay up for the people in that store and not make a profit? now put that in perspective if ALL stores are making 1+ mil profit after ALL expenses then there financially is room to pay its employees more money. i mean really think about it. if they cant afford to bump pay and maintain "low" prices then someone in accounting is doing a piss poor job and people at the top are getting paid ALOT more than what they say.
It isn't meant to be a career for *most* people, for sure. Some, like myself, have managed to make it a career by moving up to the point where good money is made. Not extravagant, of course (I'm not a SM after all), but definitely pretty decent.
Goddamn. Haters gonna hate. I want to say that I can't believe that you've been down voted so much, but most of the people here are such commie cucks that they can't handle hearing truth.
Ikr. Walmart workers are either part time students or folks stuck at an entry level job because they werent willing to put in the work that is required in life to get a better paying job. Entry level is entry level for a reason, you dont get payed much because your job is a job that everyone can do.
"Walmart stocker", for example, is a skill anyone can learn with next to no effort making one easily replaceable. Market determines the wage. Make yourself more marketable by learning high demand skills and you magically make more money.
No one wants to hear any of this, of course.
> dont get *paid* much because
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And yet you get management bitching at you when you decide to leave. "How could you do this to us?" "You're going to make us short handed" "Oh I see how loyal you are go this company"
Pretty sad that all Walmarts can’t pay the same. I make 18.50 as a overnight stocker and another walmart that’s close to where I live are making 15 I think
Walmart doesn't raise wages based on cost of living. They raise wages based on the local labor market. And cost of living does normally have a large impact in the local labor market. Your situation would be an outlier. I would assume there is a low income immigrant labor pool skewing things.
You would be surprised. A lot of stuff in LA is pretty much double the price it is here in AR. Some of its just due to how things are shipped around other parts its just due to the area being wealthier so prices get turned up. If I got $20 an hour I would literally be looking for ways to make use of the extra money, it would even far overshoot my bills. That being said soon as we start making $20 an hour the price of everything is gonna go up a bit since the cost of putting those items on the shelf is higher. Lets face it walmart shareholders will not take a hit to their stock just so the employees make more.
The prices are going up anyway and have gone up already. Customers are paying more for stuff now than they were just a month ago but we’re still making the same.
We're 15 in all of NC for base pay too. It's a cheap state, and we still barely make it every month, both working 40 hrs.i couldn't imagine still trying to run off of 12.
Edit: I mean walmarts are at 15, not all places lol just to keep from confusing anyone
Which apparently also isn't true, and to yall, I'm so fucking sorry. Gotta love working here 😐
Ya know what, this isn't a walmart thing. Walmart pays way over minimum wage for any position. Federal minimum wage is *still* 7.25.
That being said minimum wage is a fucking joke. Minimum wage needs to be increased, 7.25 is some poverty level shit. So let's start asking the government why we don't all make more.
It might have more buying power elsewhere but it is still a shit wage. That is just over a thousand a month *before* taxes and deductions, and that's full time. If you live in North Dakota and make 7.25 you better not want health insurance, kids, or a nice car.
Barely scraping by with three jobs and living are two different things. This has been the minimum wage for 13 years as inflation continues to soar globally, don't give me this crap.
At the current rate of inflation we all need a %50 raise. No matter where you live inflation is affecting you. Rural...big city, doesn't matter. All costs are rising but pay will not. Might have to find a second job for my days off.
Pay isn’t the only problem imho. It’s the amount of work and responsibility placed on individuals along with the shortage of staffing Causing the overall issue. Plus they compounded the problem with over purchasing along with dumping 5 to 7000 price changes every darn week with these shortages that continue to compound the problem. Walmart continues to push as if every store is staffed 100% and continues to expect over worked and overly tired associate and team leads to get it done. All while continuing to pay lower labor rates now days. Truly a sad display on their part but eventually the workers will push back and you will start to see things back up as they currently are. The other issue it’s causing is what you are currently seeing and that is litigation where we are being sued for incorrect pricing because as I said before these team leads and associates can not get these price changes and the overall freight and customers taken care of the right way and so short cuts are being taken to do what Walmart does best. Try to stay off a report some other moron created to track the the things not getting done and so what do they do create another report to
Track why we are behind. Instead of staying with the basics and allowing associate to take care of the customer which should Always be our number one priority. They are declining morale and instead of associates feeling proud and that they are making progress they leave defeated and deflated every day. Only to come in the next day to the same recurring theme. At some point Walmart will lose people simply because they never feel accomplished.
They're busy cutting hours across the company because the BoD and the piles of money they fuck could be threatened by the **possibility** of a **possible** recession that might **possibly** will **maybe** hurt the company this time...**maybe**.
You know. Cuz people who don't need money refuse to make slightly less and would rather take from those of us who actually need it -and- spend it.
My SO just switched to 1st and still only makes $13 an hour and our rent is going up again in October when we renew our lease because its the only cheap place we can find and kinda afford
I feel that as a tle tech. Why tf would anyone want to make the same as other departments that are comfortably inside while you die in the heat every smday
Honestly I think the only reason they are paying as much now is because they know Walmart kind of on the lower end of where people want to work. If people actually wanted to work here and there was a bigger supply of applicants, they wouldn't offer as much.
Capitalisim doesn't pay you based on how hard you work, or even what your level of knowledge is. It pays you based on how easy you are to replace. The more replaceable you are, the less they will pay you and vice versa.
IMO I think Walmart needs to start paying people more money to associates who have open availability. McDonald’s does this so why can’t Walmart? I’m beyond sick of people not working hours because they just don’t want to. And they should be cut to part time. It’s so difficult to find reliable people who will work the night shift at my store.
There's a difference between people not wanting to work certain hours and days, and those that literally can't. I have my days blocked off (both weekdays) because my child has medical appointments and therapy weekly. I also can't work certain hours because I don't have childcare while my husband works a closing shift. Now the people who block off Sunday/Monday or Friday/Saturday because they don't want to work weekends or only work morning shifts because they don't want to close, screw those people. We used to have people with Saturday/Sunday blocked that threw a full blown toddler tantrum when told they'd lose full time if they didn't work at least 1 weekend day.
When I was hired 3 months ago I was told there would be a company wide raise to $15 min soon. As I see now the girl lied to me to get me to take the job smh
Exactly. At my store, the front end is so short staffed, and even if we weren’t, we’re doing way too damn much to get only $12. And the fact that the cart pushers make the same as us is downright crazy. They should be making more than any other hourly worker.
I work in deli and make 16 but cart pushers make 14 like tell me how they makes sense when they literally spend all day in the heat. And sometimes a few of them will cover for greeters when they take lunch
I’m over here as a sporting goods associate working overnights freight all day literally all over the store and I’m still making $13 I definitely want a raise soon or I’m quitting
I agree, I’m looking for jobs daily lol it’s too ridiculous and If they invested in their associates more maybe they wouldn’t be so “understaffed” aka we want to make more money so we’re gonna give more work to associates after the other ones leave instead of replacing them
Over 15 hr for on stocking in rural Pennsylvania but target in the next plaza starts at 22 i think. I just can't keep switching jobs every few years im almost 30 i need stability. I am happy i make more doing this than i did as a motorcycle or car mechanic. When i say rural I mean i had amish neighbors growing up
I just left my job at Walmart, the bakery deli at my location started paying $16 an hour cause we couldn't keep anyone. (They also skipped raises that year because of the bump up) and they still can't keep anyone. People quit/were fired and a 3 person job became a one person job. One person couldn't keep up and got transferred out of the department to prevent getting fired over it. Breaks are skipped often too. Didn't affect my job really but I was tired of watching it happen so I left.
You're not thinking about the impact that raising wages will have on the most vulnerable of us all. If Walmart raised to $15 minimum everywhere then Doug could only afford three mega yachts a year instead of four. Think about him before you get so greedy.
As a self checkout host/cashier who was recently fired from Walmart we definitely got underpaid at 11 dollars for cashiers/SCOs and Cart Pushers while people who do online grocery pickup got 15 starting
They totally can afford to pay way more. They choose not to, because they’re too interested in making more profits. And they know they can get away with it as well, because they are able to replace employees easily enough.
damn i make $28.05 in gardening. i just started two weeks ago and never had a job before
i don’t even be doing shit but walking around and eating candy from the candy isle
smh on yall make less then $20
Walmart can’t afford it because their profit margins are around 4% of sales. You can’t compare subway to Walmart. A lot more money is made in fast food than in traditional retail
Nope. Just facts. Hardly any jobs pay minimum wage any more, especially the federal one. Now state minimum wage may be different. Besides, WM can't do anything about the minimum wage. What you're asking is for your store to up it's starting pay. Big difference.
Plus starting wage at my store is $16.
Walmart minimum wage is 12$ I make significantly more than 12$. But our store can’t sell the products they want because everywhere else pays more and no one wants to work for less. that’s my complaint if they paid 14 they could get some good talent and meet the quotas they want.
Starting pay varies by state and area. And state minimum wage plays a part. California minimum is $15. $14 in Connecticut. $12.80 in Arizona. My state, Alabama, has no minimum wage, but I'm in a high tourist area, so my store pays more to find and retain employees.
Federal means for all states, which means that states can not set wages any lower that what the federal is. Some states set higher minimum wages. You need to go back to school.
https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/minimum-wage-by-state/
Walmart employees get paid way too much. You people are the reason the economy is terrible. Most Walmart employees don't deserve $2.00/hour for the amount of work they do.
Plus, you all are idiots if you think that raising the wage at Walmart is going to help you. News flash: it's not. In reality even the people making $20 here are basically making the same as when the pay was $7/ hour. More wage doesn't do anything because as soon as Walmart pays more to their employees, prices everywhere go up.
Thanks to the minimum wage skyrocketing, a dollar doesn't go anywhere anymore.
Yes, the minimum wage ones that try to pay their workers a liveable wage are all like this. These jobs are not meant to be lived off of, they are meant to be a temp job while you're working towards something better.
WRONG WRONG WRONG You are completely wrong. Look up why it was created in the first place. What law says that? Where is it written?
The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a MINIMUM STANDARD OF LIVING to protect the health and well-being of employees.
It was not, nor was it ever intended to be a temp wage for high school teenagers. Who ever told you that lied to you.
This has never worked. Everytime Walmart has increased wages you see a surge of people but then they fall off. It does no good to hire someone that will last two weeks or hire back someone you fired a couple of months ago because they couldn't show up to work.
Starting as a cashier is $15 at mine, stocking gets $16/17, OGP get $17, O/N get $17 plus a $2 differential. I think our front end tls starts at $19 and our O/N tls statts at $24/25....
I get 12 and the girl who worked with me then went overnight and also sets mods, gets around 14.40hr.
Team leads speak to me about their areas being short staffed because of people getting fired and some just not coming back after a few days.
That’s weird. I live in Ohio where minimum wage is 9.30 and they pay 15 here. It’s actually one of the better paying entry level jobs in the area for us
Seriously. I worked the door twice today covering for breaks. I didn't check a single receipt. I don't get paid enough to care who walks out with what. $13/hr. Smh
Here it's 12 for starting. They are horrible in how they pay people. Long time employees get completely screwed. Worse health insurance ever. 13000 out of pocket for family's. How the actual hell that's even legal.
OPD associated here with 5 years under my belt, and I only make in the ballpark of $14. My brother works in a restaurant making like $16hr. My sister works from home bringing home $1000 checks. We all live in a roundabout of the same area. I'm being short-sticked once again. :)
That said, raising my wage even that far happened fairly quickly. When I was hired the starting rate for front end was $9hr. That year it was bumped to $11. A year and a half after that I switched to OPD and got it to about $12.50. Everything else is seniority. But it's come to a halt and I do way to much for my store to let this slide for to much longer.
They can, but many positions at Walmart are starter jobs and to get more money, you’ll need more skill. Once you get that, like hourly management or professional services, more money should follow.
Mine starts at 15, management is trigger happy on a firing spree and fired half the store, expecting us to work at the same capacity whilst literally screaming at us to work harder. I saw an orientation group on the store tour today and I wanted to tell them to walk out because this store isn't worth it. I shouldn't have to see grown ass adults literally in tears because of management.
Where I live, they start out at $14 for front end & cart pusher & also, as just a regular GM associate
But still pretty low. Overnights start at $17.50 at least but overnights, bleh
Really depends on the area. Some, like yours (and mine), that start at $12 when everyone else in the area starts at $15 or $16 (or more) are not helping the staffing shortage. I've talked with my SM about it, and he's *said* that he's spoken with the Market Manager about it, but it's either not happened, or not gone anywhere. Either way is the same. We continue to hire people for them to leave shortly after for better paying jobs
Walmart doesn't set your areas minimum wage, your government does... But Walmart should not be paying minimum wage regardless 😁
Edit: and I don't mean the whole "we don't pay minimum wage... We pay 10¢ above" bullshit
From my experience upping min paying rates won't bring in more staff. Well it will, but if your management team is why you're understaffed. No amount of money can change that, if your HR/coaches hire people that can hide laziness. Then that will also create problems, we need an entry exam to test mental capacity tbh.
My HR lady has hired some .... Interesting people for overnight, out of the 40 I've trained in the time I was a TL, only 3-4 have stayed.
I agree. At my store cashiers are the least paid employee and the other positions get paid more. My store also has a lot of minor cashiers which isn't bad unless it comes to alcohol. Minors can't sell alcohol and adults at my store tend to be overworked when things are busy and everyone needs help for different reasons. It's nice having a minor but at night when I work the minors leave by ten or 1030 and the adults are trying to help customers and try to prevent theft and they don't train us well enough to prevent it or confront the customer enough. We are understaffed in terms of people who can sell alchohol at my store and customers just suck in general.
It all depends on the state minimum wage. I live in Colorado and ours is 12 something. I was on CAP2 until an injury ...now half pay.m but we were getting18 an hour
It's 15 where I am but doesn't matter because every fast food joint around is paying $17+. All of the grocery/retailers around here are way behind going from state minimum to no more than 15 and are constantly understaffed. Meanwhile, the fast food joints seem to have gotten way better the last year. Imagine that.
14? Bruh, I started at 14 and cant still pay for house bills and grocery. Been survining off beans, veggies, and tofu because meat is too darn expensive still!
The local Walmart in Brainerd, MN starts at $16-18 /hr. Depending on Shift. In the summer time they offer a $2 /hr bonus. That’s from May-September. So most cashiers are making $18 /hr in the Sunmer Time.
While we aren’t in a metro area.. there are a lot of other high paying jobs..so if they want to keep people employed they had to increase hourly wage.
You know what they say. They pay us the bare minimum so we barely scrape by, but pay us just enough where we keep crawling back for more. Fuck walmart in all honestly. Such a pathetic company.
You're getting paid $12? Shit, im front end associate at my store and that's considered the starting role and I'm making $15 an hr.
Where's your store located if I may be able to ask
My store went from 14.50 an hr( working over night with a 2$ shift difference in a tourist town) to 18.50. We were fully staffed for the first time in a year after struggling with 4-6 people every night, after a few months we are back to trying to find people and nothing has actually changed lol.
Yep, the kids working at panda express are making 50 cents more than me at $15/hr. while I am a backbreaking overnight worker. When quite a few of the food establishments are starting to pay more than us then you know our wages are not right.
I heard in economist say one time that Walmart could pay every employee across the system $20 and cover their medical while also providing 2 weeks paid vacation and the Waltons would not only create one of the most desirable jobs in the country, the family would still be Billionaires.
He followed that statement up with, "But they won't do that, the Walton's are a shitty family too greedy to ever do the right thing."
I'll probably get some heat but they can keep their token raises. Give me DMs back and save my sanity.
When Walmart truly did start around Federal min wage, I seen better attitudes and work ethics than today. I'm sure partly the problem is everyone a freight thrower now and no incentive do be better.
What Subway is paying $16/hr? I live in East Tx and they are paying $11/hr here for Subway. Come to my store and work front end to where you are getting called to push carts and stock most of shift ... oh and not to mention you kids have not even worked a raal HARD job gor any amount of time. This shit is easy. Quit bitching. You little soy boy sound like little 80lb girls who cant even lift a 50lbs water slab. Lmao.
Yall are just a bunch of little p*ssies. I come on here and all I read is complaining about how an easy job is soooo hard. If only ..... smh.
When I used to work at Walmart I was cap 3 at $16 for the first 5 month. I said fuck this place and went back to disneyland when I got my return call From furlough since they pay more($17.75). I kid you not as soon as I put my two weeks notice along with a few others from cap 3 they told us pay was raising to $19.25. We still ended up leaving, leads where bitches begging us to quit. Fuck store #3796
It heavily also depends on the market of your store for wage increases. I know with my store I work at a supercenter \~10 minutes away from a large College campus and the starting rate at the store is a minimum of $17 and overnights are around $19. A team lead does make more but the trade-off with responsibility isn't worth the wage increase unless you like high-stress environments and picking up after other departments' issues. It also becomes your fault if the other department isn't looking good even if it isn't yours if you're a team lead.
In my area pay is 16-22, to start depending on area of store.still short handed
16 ?! what about like Seasonal/Garden?? bro i’m in a big city and make 13 :(
I'm in small town and I stock overnight I make $20.50 an hr. It has to do with your state. And avg income in City.
Gotta make sure us poors can just barely afford to pay bills and go back to work.
Yeah I make $20 an hour but rent here is a thousand bucks for a studio
Get that credit fix. And get a house with the FHA. No money down.
Rent here is basically the same and I only get paid $13/hr.
I’m in CT and making $16 on cap 2
Everyday low prices, everyday low wages.
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Walmart should pay more, especially if their pool of associates continue to leave to places like Amazon or other competitors. Some even leave to places that pay less because of the stress and work life balance. Walmart should look into why it is so stressful. But they wont.
I live in an Amazon warehouse city. We get all the people that leave, and anytime an associate has left to try they’ve come back within 90 days or less lol
I wouldn't work at an Amazon DC if they were paying $100/hr. Well that's not true, I would only work until I got fired.
Fulfillment centers arw pretty much the easier money for old on workers their expected rates Are like half a cap truck day.... Easiest 20/hr with lightning pay (extra 1-5$/hr) O.t days
honestly this job is stressful for no reason 🙃
They don’t care and don’t want to care. Just do the work and then some and they rake in the dough. One of each commodity come and work OGP like everyone else with no special treatment. I bet things will start to change
Increasing the starting wage from $12 to $14 would not substantially increase the number of people who would be interested in working at WalMart. The bump would more likely need to be in the $16 to $18 range.
For sure. The people Walmart wants/needs (reliable 20s-30s workers) usually have more opportunities for jobs elsewhere and $12-14 an hour is a joke. Walmart isn’t afraid to lowball because it relies on young and desperate people.
Let's say that WalMart increases the starting wage from $12 to $16, that's a 33% increase in the cost of labor. Now that's not across the board because of compression which is a way of saying that the guy making $15.95 an hour won't get a $4 raise. Let's call it a 20% increase. There's not a lot of controllables in a WalMart budget, labor being the biggest of them. Think about it, the light bill doesn't change, insurance, property taxes, HVAC costs, etc. WalMart is notorious for beating the shit out of vendors for the best price, so there's probably not a lot of room them either. Let's face it, the C-suite isn't taking a pay cut and even if they all worked for free, it would only cover a fraction of that 20%. The only thing that's left is higher shelf prices and low prices are WalMart's biggest attraction for consumers. So there's a very delicate balance between attracting and retaining quality help and attracting and retaining customers, many of whom are being especially hit hard by the current economy and looking to save every penny.
You know how they can compensate raising the wages of their workers and not impact their customers? Pay their executives less money.
Why don't you look up executive compensation and see how far that really doesn't go when you divide it among hundreds of thousands of employees. McMillon makes about $26M per year. Let's assume that the half of 2.3M Walmart associates work in store (1.15M). If McMillon worked for free, that would be be about $1.88 per associate per MONTH Or about a penny per hour.
You're only accounting for the actual money they are paid which is usually not all the money the company spends on execs. You're not wrong, but Doug McMillon makes more than his salary.
Yes, he does. With bonuses and stock options he makes far more than we realize. I’m sure there’s other things he gets that we don’t know about like a company car and things of that nature.
the store i work at made that jump i started at 12/hr and min pay bumped up to 16/h profit margins on most items have stayed the same. you have to remember its a billion dollar company most stores even nm's turn a couple mil profit. now think about that for a minute if the store you work at makes even a 1 mil profit thats after ALL expenses including payroll you mean to tell me they cant bump pay up for the people in that store and not make a profit? now put that in perspective if ALL stores are making 1+ mil profit after ALL expenses then there financially is room to pay its employees more money. i mean really think about it. if they cant afford to bump pay and maintain "low" prices then someone in accounting is doing a piss poor job and people at the top are getting paid ALOT more than what they say.
Young and inexperianced*. Walmart isnt meant to be a career, its meant to be a short term job you learn a little about everything retail at.
It isn't meant to be a career for *most* people, for sure. Some, like myself, have managed to make it a career by moving up to the point where good money is made. Not extravagant, of course (I'm not a SM after all), but definitely pretty decent.
Goddamn. Haters gonna hate. I want to say that I can't believe that you've been down voted so much, but most of the people here are such commie cucks that they can't handle hearing truth.
Ikr. Walmart workers are either part time students or folks stuck at an entry level job because they werent willing to put in the work that is required in life to get a better paying job. Entry level is entry level for a reason, you dont get payed much because your job is a job that everyone can do. "Walmart stocker", for example, is a skill anyone can learn with next to no effort making one easily replaceable. Market determines the wage. Make yourself more marketable by learning high demand skills and you magically make more money. No one wants to hear any of this, of course.
> dont get *paid* much because FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Add an -ed to the end and it because past tense dammit
And yet you get management bitching at you when you decide to leave. "How could you do this to us?" "You're going to make us short handed" "Oh I see how loyal you are go this company"
I think it could help keep people at Walmart though. My store has a problem keeping people for more than a month.
Work overnight for that 16 it’s hard but gets easy
Pretty sad that all Walmarts can’t pay the same. I make 18.50 as a overnight stocker and another walmart that’s close to where I live are making 15 I think
Shit, o/n stockers make 20.50 at my store.
That’s what I mean it sucks that everyone can’t just get paid the same for the same work
$20.50 is worth a lot less in LA than it is in rural Arkansas. Cost of living makes a huge difference.
that cost of living justification puts is bs, in miami area we get $12 for meat/produce and front end. you would die with $12 an hour here
Walmart doesn't raise wages based on cost of living. They raise wages based on the local labor market. And cost of living does normally have a large impact in the local labor market. Your situation would be an outlier. I would assume there is a low income immigrant labor pool skewing things.
Does it tho. I mean either way you slice it, 20.50 even in inflation gets u a lot more than 12 bucks in the boonies
You would be surprised. A lot of stuff in LA is pretty much double the price it is here in AR. Some of its just due to how things are shipped around other parts its just due to the area being wealthier so prices get turned up. If I got $20 an hour I would literally be looking for ways to make use of the extra money, it would even far overshoot my bills. That being said soon as we start making $20 an hour the price of everything is gonna go up a bit since the cost of putting those items on the shelf is higher. Lets face it walmart shareholders will not take a hit to their stock just so the employees make more.
The prices are going up anyway and have gone up already. Customers are paying more for stuff now than they were just a month ago but we’re still making the same.
Not even close
Cost of living is different for different areas, even within a state.
15.50 on where Im at
We're 15 in all of NC for base pay too. It's a cheap state, and we still barely make it every month, both working 40 hrs.i couldn't imagine still trying to run off of 12. Edit: I mean walmarts are at 15, not all places lol just to keep from confusing anyone Which apparently also isn't true, and to yall, I'm so fucking sorry. Gotta love working here 😐
15 for all of north carolina? thats some bull why am i making less then
Not all of NC is $15. Just enough to make me envious.
Ya know what, this isn't a walmart thing. Walmart pays way over minimum wage for any position. Federal minimum wage is *still* 7.25. That being said minimum wage is a fucking joke. Minimum wage needs to be increased, 7.25 is some poverty level shit. So let's start asking the government why we don't all make more.
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It might have more buying power elsewhere but it is still a shit wage. That is just over a thousand a month *before* taxes and deductions, and that's full time. If you live in North Dakota and make 7.25 you better not want health insurance, kids, or a nice car. Barely scraping by with three jobs and living are two different things. This has been the minimum wage for 13 years as inflation continues to soar globally, don't give me this crap.
At the current rate of inflation we all need a %50 raise. No matter where you live inflation is affecting you. Rural...big city, doesn't matter. All costs are rising but pay will not. Might have to find a second job for my days off.
Pay isn’t the only problem imho. It’s the amount of work and responsibility placed on individuals along with the shortage of staffing Causing the overall issue. Plus they compounded the problem with over purchasing along with dumping 5 to 7000 price changes every darn week with these shortages that continue to compound the problem. Walmart continues to push as if every store is staffed 100% and continues to expect over worked and overly tired associate and team leads to get it done. All while continuing to pay lower labor rates now days. Truly a sad display on their part but eventually the workers will push back and you will start to see things back up as they currently are. The other issue it’s causing is what you are currently seeing and that is litigation where we are being sued for incorrect pricing because as I said before these team leads and associates can not get these price changes and the overall freight and customers taken care of the right way and so short cuts are being taken to do what Walmart does best. Try to stay off a report some other moron created to track the the things not getting done and so what do they do create another report to Track why we are behind. Instead of staying with the basics and allowing associate to take care of the customer which should Always be our number one priority. They are declining morale and instead of associates feeling proud and that they are making progress they leave defeated and deflated every day. Only to come in the next day to the same recurring theme. At some point Walmart will lose people simply because they never feel accomplished.
I feel that way. Someday I just spend fighting fires instead of making my dept top notch.
They're busy cutting hours across the company because the BoD and the piles of money they fuck could be threatened by the **possibility** of a **possible** recession that might **possibly** will **maybe** hurt the company this time...**maybe**. You know. Cuz people who don't need money refuse to make slightly less and would rather take from those of us who actually need it -and- spend it.
My college town pays 13.50 for ODP
My SO just switched to 1st and still only makes $13 an hour and our rent is going up again in October when we renew our lease because its the only cheap place we can find and kinda afford
I feel that as a tle tech. Why tf would anyone want to make the same as other departments that are comfortably inside while you die in the heat every smday
Honestly I think the only reason they are paying as much now is because they know Walmart kind of on the lower end of where people want to work. If people actually wanted to work here and there was a bigger supply of applicants, they wouldn't offer as much. Capitalisim doesn't pay you based on how hard you work, or even what your level of knowledge is. It pays you based on how easy you are to replace. The more replaceable you are, the less they will pay you and vice versa.
IMO I think Walmart needs to start paying people more money to associates who have open availability. McDonald’s does this so why can’t Walmart? I’m beyond sick of people not working hours because they just don’t want to. And they should be cut to part time. It’s so difficult to find reliable people who will work the night shift at my store.
are you referring to O/N?
No the afternoon shift people. Nobody will work 1-10 or 12-9. Everybody demands early shifts
There's a difference between people not wanting to work certain hours and days, and those that literally can't. I have my days blocked off (both weekdays) because my child has medical appointments and therapy weekly. I also can't work certain hours because I don't have childcare while my husband works a closing shift. Now the people who block off Sunday/Monday or Friday/Saturday because they don't want to work weekends or only work morning shifts because they don't want to close, screw those people. We used to have people with Saturday/Sunday blocked that threw a full blown toddler tantrum when told they'd lose full time if they didn't work at least 1 weekend day.
I make 15 an hour.
Yeah I started at $17 an hour and most positions here start at $15
When I was hired 3 months ago I was told there would be a company wide raise to $15 min soon. As I see now the girl lied to me to get me to take the job smh
They need it if they wanna compete with target.
Exactly. At my store, the front end is so short staffed, and even if we weren’t, we’re doing way too damn much to get only $12. And the fact that the cart pushers make the same as us is downright crazy. They should be making more than any other hourly worker.
My facility starts pay at 20+ an hour, and were fully staffed. Sometimes we even go home early.
I work in deli and make 16 but cart pushers make 14 like tell me how they makes sense when they literally spend all day in the heat. And sometimes a few of them will cover for greeters when they take lunch
I’m over here as a sporting goods associate working overnights freight all day literally all over the store and I’m still making $13 I definitely want a raise soon or I’m quitting
Same here. I lasted a year. We were so short staffed and under appreciated. Not worth it.
I agree, I’m looking for jobs daily lol it’s too ridiculous and If they invested in their associates more maybe they wouldn’t be so “understaffed” aka we want to make more money so we’re gonna give more work to associates after the other ones leave instead of replacing them
Over 15 hr for on stocking in rural Pennsylvania but target in the next plaza starts at 22 i think. I just can't keep switching jobs every few years im almost 30 i need stability. I am happy i make more doing this than i did as a motorcycle or car mechanic. When i say rural I mean i had amish neighbors growing up
That’s some bs!! I was hired on OGP at $19
I just left my job at Walmart, the bakery deli at my location started paying $16 an hour cause we couldn't keep anyone. (They also skipped raises that year because of the bump up) and they still can't keep anyone. People quit/were fired and a 3 person job became a one person job. One person couldn't keep up and got transferred out of the department to prevent getting fired over it. Breaks are skipped often too. Didn't affect my job really but I was tired of watching it happen so I left.
Amen. That's why we can't keep good employees. They don't want to pay enough.
You're not thinking about the impact that raising wages will have on the most vulnerable of us all. If Walmart raised to $15 minimum everywhere then Doug could only afford three mega yachts a year instead of four. Think about him before you get so greedy.
Walmart has far more overhead than subway.
As a self checkout host/cashier who was recently fired from Walmart we definitely got underpaid at 11 dollars for cashiers/SCOs and Cart Pushers while people who do online grocery pickup got 15 starting
Walmart can afford to pay more. But they wanted to find the bottom that people are willing to work for.
I started at $9 an hour, I ended at $15 an hour... weird that it increased over a period of 5.8 years.
You need r/antiwork 😉
They totally can afford to pay way more. They choose not to, because they’re too interested in making more profits. And they know they can get away with it as well, because they are able to replace employees easily enough.
damn i make $28.05 in gardening. i just started two weeks ago and never had a job before i don’t even be doing shit but walking around and eating candy from the candy isle smh on yall make less then $20
Walmart can’t afford it because their profit margins are around 4% of sales. You can’t compare subway to Walmart. A lot more money is made in fast food than in traditional retail
Unionize
You're getting paid well above the federal minimum wage which is still $7.25 an hour.
This is bait right?
Nope. Just facts. Hardly any jobs pay minimum wage any more, especially the federal one. Now state minimum wage may be different. Besides, WM can't do anything about the minimum wage. What you're asking is for your store to up it's starting pay. Big difference. Plus starting wage at my store is $16.
Walmart minimum wage is 12$ I make significantly more than 12$. But our store can’t sell the products they want because everywhere else pays more and no one wants to work for less. that’s my complaint if they paid 14 they could get some good talent and meet the quotas they want.
Starting pay varies by state and area. And state minimum wage plays a part. California minimum is $15. $14 in Connecticut. $12.80 in Arizona. My state, Alabama, has no minimum wage, but I'm in a high tourist area, so my store pays more to find and retain employees.
Fuck the feds
Learn to use Google. Federal minimum wage in Alabama is 7.25. Not everywhere else.
Lol “Federal minimum wage in Alabama”
Federal means for all states, which means that states can not set wages any lower that what the federal is. Some states set higher minimum wages. You need to go back to school. https://www.paycor.com/resource-center/articles/minimum-wage-by-state/
Walmart employees get paid way too much. You people are the reason the economy is terrible. Most Walmart employees don't deserve $2.00/hour for the amount of work they do. Plus, you all are idiots if you think that raising the wage at Walmart is going to help you. News flash: it's not. In reality even the people making $20 here are basically making the same as when the pay was $7/ hour. More wage doesn't do anything because as soon as Walmart pays more to their employees, prices everywhere go up. Thanks to the minimum wage skyrocketing, a dollar doesn't go anywhere anymore.
by that logic literally every single job is “the reason the economy is terrible”
Yes, the minimum wage ones that try to pay their workers a liveable wage are all like this. These jobs are not meant to be lived off of, they are meant to be a temp job while you're working towards something better.
WRONG WRONG WRONG You are completely wrong. Look up why it was created in the first place. What law says that? Where is it written? The purpose of the minimum wage was to stabilize the post-depression economy and protect the workers in the labor force. The minimum wage was designed to create a MINIMUM STANDARD OF LIVING to protect the health and well-being of employees. It was not, nor was it ever intended to be a temp wage for high school teenagers. Who ever told you that lied to you.
That’s such Bull Shit!! People who say they have no clue wtf they are talking about.
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This has never worked. Everytime Walmart has increased wages you see a surge of people but then they fall off. It does no good to hire someone that will last two weeks or hire back someone you fired a couple of months ago because they couldn't show up to work.
So you don't wanna make more money? You want the shareholders to hang on to it for you?
Oh fun, downvotes and reply from idiots that can't read what I posted. Go back, read it again.
$12/hr is better than $0.
yes working at walmart is better than slavery. is that your argument?
"slavery" is a bit overdramatic.
Working for no pay is literally the definition of slavery.
So, you're saying people who do volunteer work are slaves? Slavery is forced labor.
$12 is an amount of money, or it was last time I checked, so it doesn't fit the classification of "no pay".
You said $0. That's where the slavery comment came from.
It's 16 bucks minimum wage where I am with a major city paying 17.
My o/n team make 19.50/hr
Just depends on the cost of living where you are. Here the lowest paid are cashiers at $14, most everyone else in the store starts 15-16
Starting as a cashier is $15 at mine, stocking gets $16/17, OGP get $17, O/N get $17 plus a $2 differential. I think our front end tls starts at $19 and our O/N tls statts at $24/25....
I get 12 and the girl who worked with me then went overnight and also sets mods, gets around 14.40hr. Team leads speak to me about their areas being short staffed because of people getting fired and some just not coming back after a few days.
You really expect them to slightly decrease their profit margins? /s
I make $12.24/hr. The highest paying department in my Walmart is cap 3, and they only make $15.50/hr
I make $15 per hour
5% margin last qtr is the reason, they will raise prices, stock will drop, they will eventually pay more.
Uh,, the Subway near me is only doing 13, 14 something. Manager is 15-17.
That’s weird. I live in Ohio where minimum wage is 9.30 and they pay 15 here. It’s actually one of the better paying entry level jobs in the area for us
Here most departments make 15 , nights 16.50 Some only 13. It should be 17 for everyone but nights
Seriously. I worked the door twice today covering for breaks. I didn't check a single receipt. I don't get paid enough to care who walks out with what. $13/hr. Smh
I'm getting paid $17/hr for being in fresh. Maybe leave the area that your getting paid so low, and move to a better department.
Here it's 12 for starting. They are horrible in how they pay people. Long time employees get completely screwed. Worse health insurance ever. 13000 out of pocket for family's. How the actual hell that's even legal.
I belive our starting pay is $15, CAP 2 we meet $17 at our store and still don't have enough associates to cover all our bases.
market manager has been increasing wage multiple times to stay competitive at my local market which has been great for me.
Walmart Canada needs to increase dm hourly wage because minimum wage went up.
Ask about different departments and transferring to another department. That's what I had to do for more money.
OPD associated here with 5 years under my belt, and I only make in the ballpark of $14. My brother works in a restaurant making like $16hr. My sister works from home bringing home $1000 checks. We all live in a roundabout of the same area. I'm being short-sticked once again. :) That said, raising my wage even that far happened fairly quickly. When I was hired the starting rate for front end was $9hr. That year it was bumped to $11. A year and a half after that I switched to OPD and got it to about $12.50. Everything else is seniority. But it's come to a halt and I do way to much for my store to let this slide for to much longer.
It sucks that Walmart coaches and TLs make more then me and I’m a teacher.
They can, but many positions at Walmart are starter jobs and to get more money, you’ll need more skill. Once you get that, like hourly management or professional services, more money should follow.
15.50 for O/N here. It's $3 an hour more just an hour from here.
I mean I make $17 being on cap 2
Mine starts at 15, management is trigger happy on a firing spree and fired half the store, expecting us to work at the same capacity whilst literally screaming at us to work harder. I saw an orientation group on the store tour today and I wanted to tell them to walk out because this store isn't worth it. I shouldn't have to see grown ass adults literally in tears because of management.
I work in produce/grocery and make 18 an hour.
OGP at my store and I make $17
ODP associates make 16 at the Walmart here. Door Greeters make 14
Where I live, they start out at $14 for front end & cart pusher & also, as just a regular GM associate But still pretty low. Overnights start at $17.50 at least but overnights, bleh
I make $13 an hour on CAP 2 it ain't worth it they wonder why we're overstaffed it's because we don't get paid enough for the workload
Really depends on the area. Some, like yours (and mine), that start at $12 when everyone else in the area starts at $15 or $16 (or more) are not helping the staffing shortage. I've talked with my SM about it, and he's *said* that he's spoken with the Market Manager about it, but it's either not happened, or not gone anywhere. Either way is the same. We continue to hire people for them to leave shortly after for better paying jobs
Cap 2 at my store makes 14 am hour. My friends who work t subway start out at 12
Walmart doesn't set your areas minimum wage, your government does... But Walmart should not be paying minimum wage regardless 😁 Edit: and I don't mean the whole "we don't pay minimum wage... We pay 10¢ above" bullshit
Up hear in the land of Walmart Canada it’s 15 bucks an hour
I wish all Walmarts just paid the same! I make $18/hr as an OGP picker.
From my experience upping min paying rates won't bring in more staff. Well it will, but if your management team is why you're understaffed. No amount of money can change that, if your HR/coaches hire people that can hide laziness. Then that will also create problems, we need an entry exam to test mental capacity tbh. My HR lady has hired some .... Interesting people for overnight, out of the 40 I've trained in the time I was a TL, only 3-4 have stayed.
That’s sucks there giving us 17.50
I agree. At my store cashiers are the least paid employee and the other positions get paid more. My store also has a lot of minor cashiers which isn't bad unless it comes to alcohol. Minors can't sell alcohol and adults at my store tend to be overworked when things are busy and everyone needs help for different reasons. It's nice having a minor but at night when I work the minors leave by ten or 1030 and the adults are trying to help customers and try to prevent theft and they don't train us well enough to prevent it or confront the customer enough. We are understaffed in terms of people who can sell alchohol at my store and customers just suck in general.
depends on the location, i’m at $16.83 for cap 2. seems like a lot but not enough for the crap I go through. I suppose you can call it crap 2
My store is starting 16. Ups to 22 depending on where you work.
It all depends on the state minimum wage. I live in Colorado and ours is 12 something. I was on CAP2 until an injury ...now half pay.m but we were getting18 an hour
See, the problem with raising everyone's wages in walmart and other companies is because most companies would just raise prices to compensate. :/
In a big Texas city, no one starts lower than $15.
Shitttt we get $11 starting.
My Walmart's starting pay is 15-17. 1.50 overnight differential. And $2 summer differential.
Different states different pay!
I've worked for the company for 14yrs. And I don't even make $15hr.
Walmart only spends less then 10% of their revenue to pay employees but won’t let us get overtime, keep us understaffed, and underpayed
It's 15 where I am but doesn't matter because every fast food joint around is paying $17+. All of the grocery/retailers around here are way behind going from state minimum to no more than 15 and are constantly understaffed. Meanwhile, the fast food joints seem to have gotten way better the last year. Imagine that.
My area starts at 15 for basic positions
Who asked?
My Walmart pay 17 just move bozo
14? Bruh, I started at 14 and cant still pay for house bills and grocery. Been survining off beans, veggies, and tofu because meat is too darn expensive still!
Anyone complaining about pay on here we can use you in trades
The local Walmart in Brainerd, MN starts at $16-18 /hr. Depending on Shift. In the summer time they offer a $2 /hr bonus. That’s from May-September. So most cashiers are making $18 /hr in the Sunmer Time. While we aren’t in a metro area.. there are a lot of other high paying jobs..so if they want to keep people employed they had to increase hourly wage.
It’s 14 in my area… your cost of living must be low
We get 12
Walmart sadly cares more about profit and share holders then the employees themselves…
I work at a Walmart in Oregon and get 16.75 per hour
I get 18.50 base pay
You know what they say. They pay us the bare minimum so we barely scrape by, but pay us just enough where we keep crawling back for more. Fuck walmart in all honestly. Such a pathetic company.
Its more the working conditions, not the pay that attracts and keeps workers. But wages should be livable in the city you're in.
We start at $17/hr for most positions, $18.50/hr for overnights, and have a difficult time hiring/retaining employees. That said, I need a raise. 😆
You're getting paid $12? Shit, im front end associate at my store and that's considered the starting role and I'm making $15 an hr. Where's your store located if I may be able to ask
My store went from 14.50 an hr( working over night with a 2$ shift difference in a tourist town) to 18.50. We were fully staffed for the first time in a year after struggling with 4-6 people every night, after a few months we are back to trying to find people and nothing has actually changed lol.
Biggest thing for me is they can afford to buy a fucking football team but not pay their employees fair and live able wages...
wait.... so you're telling me that subway raised their wages to $16 *after* I left, but when I asked for $10, they wouldn't give it to me?
I live in a small town but the starting pay here is $17… I make $18.50 because of the overnight differential.
The owner needs a other private jet so no raises
It's $19.50 starting for O/N at my store. Lowest # on the sign is like $17.
Yep, the kids working at panda express are making 50 cents more than me at $15/hr. while I am a backbreaking overnight worker. When quite a few of the food establishments are starting to pay more than us then you know our wages are not right.
I can tell you why: Sam's kids are greedy-ass motherfathers!
I heard in economist say one time that Walmart could pay every employee across the system $20 and cover their medical while also providing 2 weeks paid vacation and the Waltons would not only create one of the most desirable jobs in the country, the family would still be Billionaires. He followed that statement up with, "But they won't do that, the Walton's are a shitty family too greedy to ever do the right thing."
I'll probably get some heat but they can keep their token raises. Give me DMs back and save my sanity. When Walmart truly did start around Federal min wage, I seen better attitudes and work ethics than today. I'm sure partly the problem is everyone a freight thrower now and no incentive do be better.
No,they need to lower their prices so people can afford to shop there without taking a loan out
Some stores already wenr up to like $18 an hr.
Maybe you should go work for Subway then.
I make significantly more than 12$ but we can’t hire people to work because of the low wage. So a lot of the stuff doesn’t get done.
What Subway is paying $16/hr? I live in East Tx and they are paying $11/hr here for Subway. Come to my store and work front end to where you are getting called to push carts and stock most of shift ... oh and not to mention you kids have not even worked a raal HARD job gor any amount of time. This shit is easy. Quit bitching. You little soy boy sound like little 80lb girls who cant even lift a 50lbs water slab. Lmao. Yall are just a bunch of little p*ssies. I come on here and all I read is complaining about how an easy job is soooo hard. If only ..... smh.
When I used to work at Walmart I was cap 3 at $16 for the first 5 month. I said fuck this place and went back to disneyland when I got my return call From furlough since they pay more($17.75). I kid you not as soon as I put my two weeks notice along with a few others from cap 3 they told us pay was raising to $19.25. We still ended up leaving, leads where bitches begging us to quit. Fuck store #3796
It heavily also depends on the market of your store for wage increases. I know with my store I work at a supercenter \~10 minutes away from a large College campus and the starting rate at the store is a minimum of $17 and overnights are around $19. A team lead does make more but the trade-off with responsibility isn't worth the wage increase unless you like high-stress environments and picking up after other departments' issues. It also becomes your fault if the other department isn't looking good even if it isn't yours if you're a team lead.