Walmart's Wage Bomb: Average Workers Earn LESS Than You Think!
Webwalmart, the nation’s largest private employer, announced on thursday that it would raise wages for 425,000 of its employees in the united states, as large. Webwalmart said tuesday it would raise the average hourly wage of its associates to more than $17. 50 an hour — up from about $17 an hour. In a note to. Webwalmart thinks it's found the solution to improve dissatisfaction among frontline retail workers with four new initiatives. Starting next month, walmart will begin.
Webwith its third wage hike over the past year, walmart's u. s. Average hourly wage is now $16. 40, walmart u. s. Chief executive john furner said in a memo to staff. Webseventeen dollars an hour works out to an average annual income of just under $29,000 a year, wartzman says, when calculating the hours worked by walmart. Weblast year, the median walmart worker made 25 percent less than that, $27,326 — equivalent to an average of 30 hours a week. Webworker pay averaged $17. 06 an hour by earlier this year, the result of five rounds of wage increases that started in 2015.