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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.
Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told msnbc.com that he had not seen the document, but that Walmart offers âcompetitiveâ wages. âWeâre competitive with all of our competitors, even unionized ones, in pay and benefits,â he said. The average wage for a full-time hourly employee, he said, was $12.50. A new report by a policy analyst at Demos exhorts Walmart to raise its wages, arguing that the companyâs stringent compensation policies help to keep wages low across the retail industry.