6. Whole Foods
11 Companies That Pay a Wage People Can Actually Survive On
Even if most of us can’t afford anything at Whole Foods, at least we can rest assured that their employees are in good hands. The average cashier makes $11.16 hourly and the company can even boast having an employee turnover rate of less than 10%.
7. Patagonia
Patagonia doesn't just provide its employees with a livable wage at $11.22 per hour on average for sales associates…the outdoorsy clothing brand is also committed to environmental sustainability and they were the first major retailer to get nine of their Fall 2014 styles fair-trade certified.
8. In-N-Out
As it turns out, California’s legendary fast-food joint also treats their employees pretty darn well. Employees make $12.24 per hour on average. In-N-Out also provides its employees with retirement accounts, health care, and even three weeks of vacation per year for senior employees.
9. Costco
Costco really values the happiness of its employees, and that’s why they bumped up their starting wage to an impressive $12.48 per hour on average. They’ve even observed a significant increase in their number of cardholders ever since increasing wages, which shows that it’s actually helped their business! The company also offers employees health insurance, which about 88% of the employees use
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10. Zappos
Zappos, an online retailer of shoes and clothing, pays its employees an impressive $13.41 per hour on average. But that's not all…unlike many web-based retailers who outsource their operators to third-world countries and pay them dismal wages, Zappos pays their call center representatives up to $16 per hour
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11. And The Winner Is…
And who doesn’t love shopping at Trader Joe’s? Now here’s something else to love about the company: the average crew member makes $13.81 per hour. In addition, employees are also provided health benefits and vacation time. That’s going to be tough to beat!
Hobby Lobby pays over $15. No mention.
Walmart pays more than target
My company provides a living wage. Of course it requires an actual skill-based position. Crazy that people will pay someone enough money if they have an applicable skill. It’s almost as if minimum wage jobs aren’t meant to be something you base your entire existence on.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
I mean, if I can literally hire anyone else to do your job, you don’t deserve to make more money. Anyone who has managed a retail store can tell these people, there’s a stack/filing cabinet of applications for your position who will be happy to have that minimum wage job. If your job can be done by a customer and a touch screen, chances are your job isn’t important enough for you to make a “living” wage.
Not to mention, I’ve literally never had a minimum wage job where my exit pay was was still minimum wage. Hell, at GameStop I was promoted twice within a year and a half. If you’re not AT LEAST getting annual raises at your minimum wage job, you’re doing something wrong.
The oligarchs have had a war against the middle class since the 70s. They have been stealing our pensions, homes, good paying jobs, health care. These oligarchs – mulitnationals/conglomerates – corporate and financial – have been sending their trillions in profits to off shore tax havens to avoid paying tax. Some even got tax refunds!!! In the meantime, they are using our natural resources, our roads, utilities, fire/police departments, water, military – and sending us to the wars while they and their families stay home and get the good education, the great jobs, including government. WE ARE NOT BROKE. THE SUPER RICH HAVE BEEN STEALING FROM US, NOT THE POOR. If you keep buying into the GOP, Libertarian rhetoric, propaganda, your children will be slaves, living in 3rd world conditions. Once upon a time we had jobs for adults by which we could support our families, buy a basic home and have it paid off before retirement, save up money for emergencies, give our kids a good education, have good health benefits; higher education did not put us into debt for the rest of our lives, if at all.
The fast food places, retailers – these jobs were for high schoolers/college students to make some spending money. Educate yourselves: learn the truth. Here’s a list to start with: 86 LIES OF WALL STREET; THE BIG LIE; THE BIG SHORT (the book is much more informative than the dvd, but the dvd is a good start); WE’RE NOT BROKE; THE FAST FOOD NATION; INEQUALITY FOR ALL; WHERE TO INVADE NEXT; REQUIEM OF THE AMERICAN DREAM; THE PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES; THE CASE AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT; THE HUMAN EXPERIMENT; CONSUMED. THE RETIREMENT HEIST; THE 8 MILLION DOLLAR PILL; COWSPIRACY (this author turned vegan, but he has facts about the climate and environment that is not coming out because all of the environmental people are beholding to donors. When I graduated from college in the 60s, people could get good jobs, weren’t indebted for life for college. GLOBALIZATION IS NOT ABOUT FAIR TRADE, SUPPLY & DEMAND – IT’S ABOUT PITTING BETTER OFF NATION WORKERS AGAINST THE POOREST, so that we will accept lower wages, give up our sovereignty, let them privatize everything to their profit and our demise and control, while the big CEOs and oligarch owners make trillions in profits but pay no taxes. Did you know that board rooms are filled with their fellow CEOs and they all pay each others back and give each other what they want. did you know that CEOs once, and may still be doing it, had investors who started investigating what was going on terrorized by having them watched, investigated, threatened? Did you know that we are the only industrialized country that doesn’t have health care for all? that let’s its CEOs and top management make 400% more than the average worker while the rest of the industrialized world CEOs only make 35-45% more? And why haven’t any of these parasitic, criminal oligarchs gone to jail for their crimes and illegal activities that caused the 2008 world wide financial collapse? Why didn’t Wells Fargo CEOs go to jail? How is Trump’s cabinet nominees getting in when they were the very people that caused the 2008 collapse? Do you think for one minute these parasites will care about the middle class on down? Think: Trump promised to bring jobs back: Is it going to be what Bush Jr did: let them come back and they only pay 5% if that on the trillions in profit they scuttled to tax havens around the world over the last 7 decades? the companies that did come back took the money and fired thousands upon thousands of employees, took the money and bought back their stocks, which gave the CEOs and top management and owners huge enormous skyrocketing values to their stock options. And now companies are talking about bringing in robots; we already have all our good jobs sent overseas, or they are in gated communities filled with foreigners brought in on special visas. If you can’t see that the oligarchs are obliterating America, you’re head is in the sand. Wake up.
Minimum wage isn’t supposed to be a living wage. It’s a starting wage for inexperienced workers and their pay increases as their experience does. The higher minimum wage gets the higher the cost of living. This is economics 101. Ridiculous.
It’s sad we have to demand higher wages, just so we can find three roommates to help rent a house. Everything is way out of balance here in MerIKa!
the top 4 stores I would not be caught dead in.
Every company pays a wage you can live on. If you don’t like the way you are getting paid then you need to move to a better job. Companies literally pay what you are worth