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Walmart tends to pay about $10 an hour give or take.
Provides benefits like insurance, 401k, etc.
But then, I think that's pretty generous considering the level of work isn't all that high.
Oh really?
Other critics have noted that in 2001, the average wage for a Walmart Sales Clerk was $8.23 per hour, or $13,861 a year, while the federal poverty line for a family of three was $14,630. Walmart founder Sam Walton once said, "I pay low wages. I can take advantage of that. We're going to be successful, but the basis is a very low-wage, low-benefit model of employment."
The activist group Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE) said "in 2006 Walmart reports that full time hourly associates received, on average, $10.11 an hour." It further calculated that working 34 hours per week an employee earns $17,874 per year and claimed that is about twenty percent less than the average retail worker.
Furthermore the insurance and 401K are generally given to full time employees which management is given bonuses for keeping employees under the full time mark so that they do not qualify.
Here is some more info for you
A 2002 survey by the state of Georgia's subsidized healthcare system, PeachCare, found that Walmart was the largest private employer of parents of children enrolled in its program; one quarter of the employees of Georgia Walmarts qualified to enroll their children in the federal subsidized healthcare system Medicaid.[48] A 2004 study at the University of California, Berkeley charges that Walmart's low wages and benefits are insufficient, and although decreasing the burden on the social safety net to some extent, California taxpayers still pay $86 million a year to Walmart employees
and a bit more
Walmart has also faced accusations involving poor working conditions of its employees. For example, a 2005 class action lawsuit in Missouri asserted approximately 160,000 to 200,000 people who were forced to work off-the-clock, were denied overtime pay, or were not allowed to take rest and lunch breaks.[51] In 2000, Walmart paid $50 million to settle a class-action suit that asserted that 69,000 current and former Walmart employees in Colorado had been forced to work off-the-clock.[51] The company has also faced similar lawsuits in other states, including Pennsylvania,[52] Oregon, and [53] Minnesota.[54] Class-action suits were also filed in 1995 on behalf of full-time Walmart pharmacists whose base salaries and working hours were reduced as sales declined, resulting in the pharmacists being treated like hourly employees.
Walmart has been accused of allowing undocumented immigrants to work in its stores. In one case, federal investigators say Walmart executives knew that contractors were using undocumented immigrants as they had been helping the federal government with an investigation for the previous three years
As of October 2005, Walmart's health insurance covered 44% or approximately 572,000 of its 1.6 million U.S. workers.[67] In comparison, Walmart rival and wholesaler Costco insures approximately 96% of its eligible workers, although Costco has been criticized by investors for its high labor costs
Walmart spends an average of $3,500 per employee for health care, 27% less than the retail-industry average of $4,800.[68] When asked why so many Walmart workers choose to enroll in state health care plans instead of Walmart's own plan, Walmart CEO Lee Scott acknowledged that some states' benefits may be more generous than Walmart's own plan: "In some of our states, the public program may actually be a better value - with relatively high income limits to qualify, and low premiums
Read all this and plenty more
Criticism of Walmart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
and that is just a quick wikipedia search. I can supply more from other sources.
But you go ahead and run your mouth about how it is easier for me to believe what i do because it requires no research. You have absolutely no basis for that claim because you have no clue what I have researched now or any other time.