Worker Wages: Wendy's vs. Wal-Mart vs. Costco
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Walmart probably has a ton more employees to pay benefits for and that is not cheap.
And revenue is not profit.
Anyway, how ****ing hard is it to get a job somewhere else in the bloody retail industry?
Just keep applying at Costco if you want Costco benefits for chrissake.
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That makes too much sense lol!
Getting in to work at COSTCO, however, isn't easy. Generally, it's "who" you know depending on where you live. Having said that, COSTCO was advertising for employees in Edmonton recently - a first!!
JMO
Fair enough.
You know, I do have a bit of sympathy for other professions where it appears that the employee is trapped within the same organization or district, but retail?
C'mon son.
The amount of time Walmart employees invest in striking, could easily be used to find a much better employer. I'm hard pressed to believe that those opportunities do not exist in the retail sector.
First of all you are naive about retail and what it pays and what it involves... a higher paying retail job involves sales and yes indeed the sales are tracked, the individual must be polished, present well and be able to provide exceptional customer service. Not every one can do that contrary to what your attitude indicates it's not an easy anyone can do it kind of job.
Secondly not everyone has the aptitude for a higher level of education... they too deserve a job that pays a living wage and allows them to be healthy happy and productive.
The Magical World Where McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour? It's Australia
Even in countries with a high minimum wage, the golden arches manage to turn a profit. Here's how.
Last week, fast-food workers around the United States yet again walked off the job to protest their low pay and demand a wage hike to $15 an hour, about double what many of them earn today. In doing so, they added another symbolic chapter to an eight-month-old campaign of one-day strikes that, so far, has yielded lots of news coverage, but not much in terms of tangible results.
So there's a certain irony that in Australia, where the minimum wage for full-time adult workers already comes out to about $14.50 an hour, McDonald's staffers were busy scoring an actual raise. On July 24, the country's Fair Work Commission approved a new labor agreement between the company and its employees guaranteeing them up to a up to a 15 percent pay increase by 2017.
And here's the kicker: Many Australian McDonald's workers were already making more than the minimum to begin with.
The land down under is, of course, not the only high-wage country in the world where McDonald's does lucrative business. The company actually earns more revenue out of Europe than than it does from the United States. France, with its roughly $12.00 hourly minimum, has more than 1,200 locations. (Australia has about 900).
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The Magical World Where McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour? It's Australia - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
Even in countries with a high minimum wage, the golden arches manage to turn a profit. Here's how.
Last week, fast-food workers around the United States yet again walked off the job to protest their low pay and demand a wage hike to $15 an hour, about double what many of them earn today. In doing so, they added another symbolic chapter to an eight-month-old campaign of one-day strikes that, so far, has yielded lots of news coverage, but not much in terms of tangible results.
So there's a certain irony that in Australia, where the minimum wage for full-time adult workers already comes out to about $14.50 an hour, McDonald's staffers were busy scoring an actual raise. On July 24, the country's Fair Work Commission approved a new labor agreement between the company and its employees guaranteeing them up to a up to a 15 percent pay increase by 2017.
And here's the kicker: Many Australian McDonald's workers were already making more than the minimum to begin with.
The land down under is, of course, not the only high-wage country in the world where McDonald's does lucrative business. The company actually earns more revenue out of Europe than than it does from the United States. France, with its roughly $12.00 hourly minimum, has more than 1,200 locations. (Australia has about 900).
learn more
The Magical World Where McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour? It's Australia - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
