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In this case, thereâs good reason to think that Walmart needed to raise wages anyway: Labor markets are tight, and in a number of areas, the company is now contending with locally imposed minimum wages that are already forcing Walmart to raise wages to $11 an hour, or even higher.
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.