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To: tejek who wrote (753478)	11/18/2013 7:01:50 PM
From: d[-_-]b	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578299

The average Walmart "associate," Wake Up Walmart reports, makes $11.75 an hour. That's $20,744 per year. Those wages are slightly below the national average for retail employees, which is $12.04 an hour. They also produce annual earnings that, in a one-earner household, are below the $22,000 poverty line. On the other hand, these wages are far above minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. They also aren't THAT FAR below the national retail average (only 2.5% below). In a two-earner household, moreover, these wages would produce a household income of $40,000+, which, in some areas of the country, is comfortably middle-class. Walmart offers benefits to some of its employees, as well as store discounts and profit-sharing plans. Here's one way of looking at it. If Walmart took its entire $22 billion of annual pre-tax income and used all of it to give each one of its 2.1 million employees a raise, this would amount to about $10,000 a year apiece. In other words, if Walmart decided to use 100% of its operating profit to pay all of its employees more, the average store associate's salary would go from $20,000 to $30,000. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-pay#ixzz2l2qtWE1R

To: tejek who wrote (753478)	11/19/2013 9:25:31 AM
From: Blasher	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578299

speaking of straw-men .. just enough to eat give me a break! A husband and wife working at Walmart as just "associates" make $50,000 per year. yeah . . real hard to eat on only $50K . . which brings me back to . . . do you want them to make $80K ?!!? Just because people are in a thankful and giving spirit of giving MORE food to others does not mean the "others" are dirt poor. It means they don't have quite enough to have a big "shin dig" for Thanksgiving . . . so other families are sharing so that they can have a feast to give Thanks over. It's called sharing in the blessings we have. It's called fellowship with fellow humans. Isn't that what you Progressives want ?!!?