How Much Do Walmart Employees Make? Salaries Revealed

New federal filings reveal what the world’s largest personal employer, Walmart, with over two million world workers, pays its workforce.

Prime tech firms will pay a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars} in salaries, with Meta paying as much as thousands and thousands, and Walmart isn’t any totally different. In response to the filings, seen by Enterprise Insider, Walmart pays software program engineers as much as $286,000, similar to the $263,700 made by high engineers at rival Amazon.

Different tech giants provide excessive compensation for related roles, together with Microsoft, which might pay $284,000 for high engineering expertise. At Meta and Google, the identical roles will pay as much as $480,000 at Meta and a most of $340,000 for Google.

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The filings additionally present that Walmart, which is the world’s largest firm by income, compensates employees product managers anyplace from $136,500 to $286,000. In the meantime, knowledge scientists take house a spread of $138,333 to $286,000.

The information arrives from the 1,750 filings Walmart submitted to the U.S. Division of Labor within the first half of this yr. Corporations are required to submit pay info when hiring overseas staff by way of the H-1B visa program, which permits extremely expert staff to tackle specialty occupations.

The paperwork present base annual salaries for H-1B visa staff and don’t embrace further types of compensation, like signing bonuses and inventory choices. They current a snapshot of compensation, however not the whole image.

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The filings reveal that Walmart pays different roles as follows:

• Distinguished Architect: $184,827 to $338,000
• Senior Product Supervisor: $121,000 to $286,000
• Senior Design Researcher: $142,002 to $234,000
• Consumer Expertise Design Senior Supervisor: $183,227 to $286,000
• Software program Engineering Director: $190,486 to $312,000
• Product Administration Director: $201,323 to $338,000

Whereas these roles will pay six figures, they’re exterior the everyday wage for many Walmart workers.

Walmart’s workforce primarily consists of hourly retailer staff, who common an hourly wage of near $18. As of 2021, Walmart employed 1.2 million part-time and full-time hourly retailer staff within the U.S. out of 1.5 million total U.S. workers. As of the time of writing, greater than 75% of Walmart’s 45,201 open jobs globally are for positions in Walmart shops and warehouses.

That composition is mirrored in broader assessments of Walmart’s pay ranges. In response to Walmart’s annual proxy assertion, filed with the U.S. Securities and Trade Fee earlier this yr, the median Walmart worker made $29,469.

As compared, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon earned a complete annual compensation of $27,408,854, or 930 instances greater than the median worker.

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The assertion additionally confirmed that Walmart has elevated its workforce over the previous few years. As of the top of fiscal yr 2024, Walmart employed roughly 1.6 million U.S. workers and had about 2.1 million staff worldwide, making it each the biggest employer within the U.S. and on this planet.

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Some Walmart market managers who handle a cluster of shops could make $420,000 to $620,000 in complete compensation. Walmart gave these managers a pay enhance of as much as $100,000 from final yr.

Moreover, with income of $681 billion final yr, Walmart beat Amazon, which earned $638 billion throughout the identical interval, to the highest spot of the world’s largest firm by income.

Walmart inventory was up almost 9% year-to-date on the time of writing. The corporate has a market worth of over $780 billion.

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