OT - More on Wal*Mart

Pat wrote:
It is for me too. Many uneducated, unskilled service industry employees
would be thrilled to make $9.00/hour.


Can you re-read that, please. I didn't say unskilled employees made $9 an
hour. I said the average for ALL workers was $9 an hour. That includes
management.

I think that some people must think that if the average hourly wage of a
Wal*Mart employee is 9.00/hour then they can walk in off the street and
get that wage. An average is what you get when you add together all of
the saleries and then divide them by the number of saleries you started
with - a 9.00 average could be the result of one tier being 6.00 and a
second tier that was 12.00. add them together you get 18. divide it by
two and you have 9.00. The disparity is obvious in this simple example.
I'm sure there are more than two wage tiers at Wal*Mart, but you can
rest assured that when the upper management saleries are factored out,
the average Wal*Mart employee makes much less than 9.00/hour.

brigid

Pat wrote:
It is for me too. Many uneducated, unskilled service industry employees
would be thrilled to make $9.00/hour.


Can you re-read that, please. I didn't say unskilled employees made $9 an
hour. I said the average for ALL workers was $9 an hour. That includes
management.

I think that some people must think that if the average hourly wage of a
Wal*Mart employee is 9.00/hour then they can walk in off the street and
get that wage. An average is what you get when you add together all of
the saleries and then divide them by the number of saleries you started
with - a 9.00 average could be the result of one tier being 6.00 and a
second tier that was 12.00. add them together you get 18. divide it by
two and you have 9.00. The disparity is obvious in this simple example.
I'm sure there are more than two wage tiers at Wal*Mart, but you can
rest assured that when the upper management saleries are factored out,
the average Wal*Mart employee makes much less than 9.00/hour.

brigid

hello,
On 15-Aug-2004, Brigid Nelson wrote:

I think that some people must think that if the average hourly wage
of a Wal*Mart employee is 9.00/hour then they can walk in off the
street
and get that wage. An average is what you get when you add together
all
of the saleries and then divide them by the number of saleries you
started with - a 9.00 average could be the result of one tier being
6.00 and
a second tier that was 12.00. add them together you get 18. divide
it
by two and you have 9.00. The disparity is obvious in this simple
example.
I'm sure there are more than two wage tiers at Wal*Mart, but you can
rest assured that when the upper management saleries are factored
out, the average Wal*Mart employee makes much less than 9.00/hour.

To be fair, the majority of jobs at WalMart are unskilled, and worth
what
they are paid accordingly. I find it odd that there's so much
discussion
about the wages paid by WalMart when grocery stores and retail stores
and
yard work concerns etc. all offer low pay for low skill levels. One
of the facts
of life that I as a parent teach my child is that your wages will
usually be in-line
with the effort taken to obtain skills and education beforehand.

Take care,
Carmen

hello,
On 15-Aug-2004, Brigid Nelson wrote:

I think that some people must think that if the average hourly wage
of a Wal*Mart employee is 9.00/hour then they can walk in off the
street
and get that wage. An average is what you get when you add together
all
of the saleries and then divide them by the number of saleries you
started with - a 9.00 average could be the result of one tier being
6.00 and
a second tier that was 12.00. add them together you get 18. divide
it
by two and you have 9.00. The disparity is obvious in this simple
example.
I'm sure there are more than two wage tiers at Wal*Mart, but you can
rest assured that when the upper management saleries are factored
out, the average Wal*Mart employee makes much less than 9.00/hour.

To be fair, the majority of jobs at WalMart are unskilled, and worth
what
they are paid accordingly. I find it odd that there's so much
discussion
about the wages paid by WalMart when grocery stores and retail stores
and
yard work concerns etc. all offer low pay for low skill levels. One
of the facts
of life that I as a parent teach my child is that your wages will
usually be in-line
with the effort taken to obtain skills and education beforehand.

Take care,
Carmen

Cheri wrote:
|| People in CA pay a Hell of a lot more than that for the non-working
|| citizens, so I don't mind paying for people that are working. BTW
|| University of California, Berkeley, now there's a non biased study on
|| corportations. LOL

But why should you have to pay for anyone?

||
|| --
|| Cheri
|| Type 2, no meds for now.
||
|| FOB wrote in message ...
||| ECONOMY - WAL-MART IS NO BARGAIN: CBS News reports Americans are
||| paying a stiff price for bargains at the mega corporation Wal-Mart.
||| According to a recent University of California, Berkeley study,
||| Wal-Mart actually takes a lot more from communities than it gives
||| back in low prices. "Because of the low wages and because people
||| do not have health insurance through their employer, people rely on
||| public support to make ends meet," says the school's Ken Jacobs. In
||| California, taxpayers pay an estimated $82-million a year to take
||| care of health care, food stamps, and other social services for
||| Wal-Mart employees.

Cheri wrote:
|| People in CA pay a Hell of a lot more than that for the non-working
|| citizens, so I don't mind paying for people that are working. BTW
|| University of California, Berkeley, now there's a non biased study on
|| corportations. LOL

But why should you have to pay for anyone?

||
|| --
|| Cheri
|| Type 2, no meds for now.
||
|| FOB wrote in message ...
||| ECONOMY - WAL-MART IS NO BARGAIN: CBS News reports Americans are
||| paying a stiff price for bargains at the mega corporation Wal-Mart.
||| According to a recent University of California, Berkeley study,
||| Wal-Mart actually takes a lot more from communities than it gives
||| back in low prices. "Because of the low wages and because people
||| do not have health insurance through their employer, people rely on
||| public support to make ends meet," says the school's Ken Jacobs. In
||| California, taxpayers pay an estimated $82-million a year to take
||| care of health care, food stamps, and other social services for
||| Wal-Mart employees.