Does anyone in the Los Angeles area know the base/basic wages for a low-end job at Target, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and J C Penny?
Being a victim of The Great Recession, I’m one of those millions of people out there that’s unemployed and looking for a job. However as most of you know, many job ads of major companies do not list the wage and you usually have to find out in the interview . . . providing they don’t do that “What type of wage are you looking for?” or “What is the lowest wage you willing to accept for this position” game.
Last week I just had an interview for a low-end part-time job at Sears and they only pay $8.00 per hour (the minimum wage of California), but there is just no way I can earn a living making $8.00 per hour on a part-time basis (i.e. 11 to 20 hours per week max.). Yet I may take the job until after the Christmas holidays, since they said that they expect to have a lot of extra hours of work between mid November until January. So at least for a brief time, I can earn more money by getting so many extra hours, due to the holiday season. Then I could quit after the first of the year.
However today, I was just wondering, if anyone in the Los Angeles area knows the base/basic wages for a low-end job at Target, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Costco, and J C Penny? Because, I don’t want to waste my time applying for a job at these companies, if they are only going to pay minimum wage.
Yet one thing that would be even greater, I am also wondering if there is any website out there that basically tells what the wages are for basic positions at some of the top major companies in our nation?
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From what I've heard, Costco pays their employees almost twice as much as WalMart.
Do NOT go to work for WalMart if you can possibly avoid it. They pay their employees the lowest wages possible, and are a disgrace to the industry.
Costco pays its workers $17 an hour on average, while WalMart's Sam's Club pays only $10 an hour on average. 85% of Costco employees enjoy company-provided health insurance, compared with less than half of the workers at Sam's Club.
Costco has outperformed Wal-Mart on the stock market over the last five years. The real reason for the difference in compensation and benefits is that Costco employees have much lower turnover, better interaction with customers and are more productive than Wal-Mart's workers. Because Sam's Club employees require layers of close supervision, they are much less productive than Costco's largely self-managing workers.
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