Walmart boosts starting pay to new completely insulting amount

Is $11 an hour not good?

if you work full time (40 hrs a week) it's $1500 a month after tax (not including local) or $22K a year pre tax. I don't know where you live or what bills, rent, food, gas, heat, insurance, medical care you need but yes - IT SUCKS - not good

Id say give them some credit. That's starting pay for minimal skill work, not bad imo. I was responsible for people's lives and got paid less than that.

People that take their job seriously have the opportunity to turn their job into a career with Walmart. If they're intelligent and hard working they'll make more than that minimum in time.

If anyone wants go give Walmart a hard time I'd say focus on where the buy their merchandise from.

Totally agree, that's why I don't shop there. That and it's a lousy shopping experience. BTW, I was shocked to see what EMT's are paid - unbelievable.

Well said.

Some people confuse equal opportunity with equal outcome.

They think an entry level worker with no experience and no education should make the same as someone with X years of experience and something more than a high school diploma.

Were/are you military?

Ha no! I was a lifeguard yanking kids out of the deep end of pools. Lifeguards are really just janitors/greetors that will also save people's lives when they do dumb things. It's 90% boredom and cleaning, 10% oh shit oh shit!

We had to pay for our own first aid, cpr, and swim teacher training. If we had all three of those certificates we got paid 7.50 instead of 6.85! It took a year to make it worth it. Looking back at that time I could have made more money bagging groceries.

I really don't see why people complain about $11 an hour at Walmart. For the responsibility and difficulty, it's a lot imo.

Still, lifeguard is an important job that should get paid more, just like EMTs, they have really low wages too.

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