Current Events > The Walmart near me is paying $18.50/hr to start.

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I just saw this at their registers at checkout. I once worked for a Walmart at $7.25/hr in 2010 or so.

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Sure, provided there are advancement opportunities. I already got a cushy job currently in that department.
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Not bad, but they can easily afford $25/hour

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Buy Wal-Mart stock instead of crypto

If my job didnt pay me more than that then yeah

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Kombucha posted...

I just saw this at their registers at checkout. I once worked for a Walmart at $7.25/hr in 2010 or so.

This is for Automotive, bakery, deli, and CAP 2. We are still pretty angry about this.

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Yo, go get that bread... Zaddy need dem new shoes

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hell fuckin no, i get suicidal just stopping into one of those deathtraps on the way home from work to pick up a few things. maybe like 10 years ago when they didnt have the same lighting as prisons
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god damn they pay $3.50 more per hour than the place i used to work at, paying our electrical assemblers. But hey, the owner had 2 porches, so at least he was happy.

let me tell ya, there's nothing shittier for someone making hires than telling them they make less and have worse benefits than the coffee shop down the street. Had so many people up and walk out of the interview lmfao.

Mine starts folks at 16.50 and offers and extra 1.50 for overnight. Also keep in mind the average income for someone in my town is like 20k, so that is fantastic pay for my areas.

Super tempting to put my name in, but I really hate Walmart.
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toadfan64 posted...

Mine starts folks at 16.50 and offers and extra 1.50 for overnight. Also keep in mind the average income for someone in my town is like 20k, so that is fantastic pay for my areas.

Super tempting to put my name in, but I really hate Walmart.

Honestly, what they are paying vs cost of living here is not terrible. I thought about asking the question of, is it enough but I'm guessing cost of living is so variable it would be pretty pointless. People are asking for a 15 dollar minimum, kind of surprised they're over for what would be considered a low/no experience job.

Naysaspace posted...

god damn they pay $3.50 more per hour than the place i used to work at, paying our electrical assemblers. But hey, the owner had 2 porches, so at least he was happy.

let me tell ya, there's nothing shittier for someone making hires than telling them they make less and have worse benefits than the coffee shop down the street. Had so many people up and walk out of the interview lmfao.

They pay as well about as well as less desirable industrial type jobs around here, kinda unexpected.

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Over a restaurant job? Yes

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where do you live

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What will likely happen is they'll hire people at the higher wage temporarily, until the enhanced unemployment benefits end, then fire those people to hire cheaper workers.

The number crunchers say that ~$33-35/hr is what people actually need to get by. So, no.

inTaCtfuL posted...

where do you live

This is going to be kind of useless but I don't feel like stating my exact location. I live in Washington state where the minimum is $13.69/hr. Cost of living here is pretty variable depending on where you live.

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Over a restaurant job? Yes

Actually, Im changing my answer to this. Nobody deserves the lack of dignity you get from working in a restaurant or fast food. If I ever have to work retail, Im just going to tell them Im not a customer person, so maybe work in the back or something. Ive literally dealt with too much abuse from the general public in various customer service jobs.

Payzmaykr posted...

The number crunchers say that ~$33-35/hr is what people actually need to get by. So, no.

lmao

thats more than i was making working an insanely high stress job for verizon lol

do it.

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ultimate reaver posted...

thats more than i was making working an insanely high stress job for verizon lol

do it.

Oh I'm not on the market for a job, but it was just surprising to me considering rents here.

Where I lived before I moved from Colorado, the Safeway started at $19/hr but rents were probably double what they are here.

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DirkDiggles posted...

This is for Automotive, bakery, deli, and CAP 2. We are still pretty angry about this.

wtf? Automotive here makes 15

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I started out at $7.70 overnights in 2008, and was at $10.20 when I left 7 years later.

This is crazy.

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Hayame Zero posted...

I started out at $7.70 overnights in 2008, and was at $10.20 when I left 7 years later.

This is crazy.

I'm surprised you only reached $10.20. Was this a state where it's pretty cheap to live?

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6 months later you get fired for "customer complaint" when they want to replace you with cheaper help.

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ExtremeLuchador posted...

6 months later you get fired for "customer complaint" when they want to replace you with cheaper help.

Getting fired from walmart only happens for attendance or absolutely colossal fuckups lol

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Gwynevere posted...

Getting fired from walmart only happens for attendance or absolutely colossal fuckups lol

I know. I know someone who worked there. At her store the staff got away with sexually harassing and stealing from each other.

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Wal-Mart seems like one of the most depressing places to work for ever

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Kombucha posted...

I'm surprised you only reached $10.20. Was this a state where it's pretty cheap to live?

Yeah, the cost of living is pretty low here. My current apartment is just over $800 with water included. But the pay was still way too low even for that.

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Broseph_Stalin posted...

lmao

Way it is.

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Wal-Mart seems like one of the most depressing places to work for ever

When I worked there I dreaded going to work, not because of the customers but because of the florescent lighting and general soul sucking attitude of the management.

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Hayame Zero posted...

I started out at $7.70 overnights in 2008, and was at $10.20 when I left 7 years later.

This is crazy.

Jesus I was making $13.40 after a year and a half in produce back in 2002...

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$18.50 at the horrible expense of working for Walmart.

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Payzmaykr posted...

The number crunchers say that ~$33-35/hr is what people actually need to get by. So, no.

33-35/hr is well beyond comfortable in most of the country; even upper middle class for a single earner

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Were_Wyrm posted...

Jesus I was making $13.40 after a year and a half in produce back in 2002...

wtf how?
I've never worked at Wal-Mart, but before my current job I worked in produce departments for like 10+ years. Giant Eagle I made around that until I got promoted to an assistant manager and made like $15.10. Then they started me at like $12.41 or something at Heinens only because of my 9 years experience. This was from 2008 to 2017

Yeah, a lot of retail & restaurants are offering significantly elevated wages to lure workers back against the current unemployment benefits. No way in hell it lasts though; whether it be from inflation as prices go up to balance out these new wages or they fire them all & rehire them at the usual, there is no way executives & shareholders will sacrifice their pie THAT peacefully, otherwise, the hike for $15/hr. wouldn't have been so controversial.

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$3 more than I make at a 7 year job so yeah. Altho the cost of living in southern Indiana isnt bad. $790 for muh 3 bedroom house.

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100% they fire the $18/hr people once demand goes back up for the jobs and replace them with minimum wage workers.

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Naysaspace posted...

god damn they pay $3.50 more per hour than the place i used to work at, paying our electrical assemblers. But hey, the owner had 2 porches, so at least he was happy.

let me tell ya, there's nothing shittier for someone making hires than telling them they make less and have worse benefits than the coffee shop down the street. Had so many people up and walk out of the interview lmfao.

Sounds like they should pay better imo

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depends on where you are. in my neck of the woods minimum wage is 9.6 so at 16.5 id say its worth stomaching working at walmart. but for 13.6 minimum id probably pass.

That's good pay for a Walmart job, but no I wouldn't ever want to work there or at a retail job in general. I didn't get an IT degree/certifications to do a retail job.

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bobbaaay posted...

wtf how?

Produce starting pay - 9.50/hr
I worked at the best store in the district so everyone in the store got an extra .20/hr, which apparently they no longer do
When I started for every year of continuous employment before walmart you got .50/hr capped at 2.50/hr, but a few months after I started it was dropped to .30/hr
90 day evaluation raise - .60
Annual raise - .60
All adds up to 13.40

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Hell no. I've had multiple friends who worked at multiple stores and they all say the same thing: it's absolute hell even by retail standards.

I even had an offer from Walmart once but backed out when they wanted to schedule me for the opposite of my availability and gave me the world's weakest excuse for it. Fuck that disrespect for (at the time) $7.25/hr.

Each of the Walton kids make like 13 billion a year probably more now

I bet they're not giving a dime to their current employees though

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In the nine states that responded about SNAP benefits Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Tennessee and Washington Walmart was found to have employed about 14,500 workers receiving the benefit, followed by McDonald's with 8,780, according to Sanders' team

I don't even like shopping in Walmart, let alone the idea of working there, but hell, that's only $1.50 less than my current IT job.

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a literal giant gas station in Texas offers competitive wages when the min wage in texas is 7.25