The eastern Pacific Mid-Oceanic Ridge is not far from the subduction zone that runs along the west coast of South America. The ocean floor spreading eastward is subducted and destroyed relatively soon after formation.
Walmart is raising starting salaries to $9 an hour this year, $10 an hour next year.
So I decided to do some back-of-the-envelope math to pencil out what it would be like to try to get by on what Walmart says is its average wage. As Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg explained in a phone call, typical hours for a full-time Walmart employee are 37 to 38 hours per week, 52 weeks a year. At $12/hour that comes to a an annual salary of $23,088 to $23,712.