Walmart Employees In Pennsylvania and Oklahoma Receive Pay Raise

Walmart is not stopping when it comes to raising pays for employees around the world and has now made headlines of giving a raise to workers in Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.

Walmart Stores announced the decision last year of giving wage raises to its employees around the world. The retail chain was definitely very serious; it has recently been making headlines of giving these raises to employees in different countries, cities and states. It is now giving a raise to workers in Pennsylvania and Oklahoma.

The grocery chain is giving a raise to 30,000 employees it has in Oklahoma, out of which 18,000 of them are in the city area. These employees of Walmart Stores Inc. will receive the hike in their wages within this week according to the announcement of the store on Wednesday. Their paycheck this week might make them happy this time.

All the employees of Walmart Stores that have been hired before January 1, this year, will be getting $10 per hour, while new entry workers hired after January 1 will continue to work at $9 per hour. They will gradually be moved to $10 per hour upon the completion of their training in retailing skill, which is widely known as, ‘Pathways’. The employees who are already earning $10 each hour are going to receive a hike in their yearly pay, effective from March 1.

Walmart’s 45,000 employees in Pennsylvania who are working at the company’s own stores and its exclusively owned brand Sam’s Club will witness a hike in their hourly payments too, which they will witness and be able to enjoy on Thursday when they receive their checks with new number on them. The retailer has 1.4 million workers around the United States, who are all receiving a wage raise, in return the company hope for better output from them leading to better customer experience. The retailer is optimistic for this cycle to be successful.

Walmart Wholesale millions of workers receiving a pay raise come from the company’s plans to invest approximately $2.7 billion in two years, as an effort to provide its employees with better training and working conditions with educational opportunity. This move is partially because of the immense pressure faced by the company last year from many of its workers and other labor agencies in the US, which protest in favor of workers, asking the retail chain to give them wage raises, more discounts on store products, and more job benefits. At the end, it had to evidently finally give in to some of the demands, if not all.

Walmart has more than 160 stores in Pennsylvania, and all of the employees working in these stores are going to receive a hike in their paychecks, which shows that their efforts and input to the company have finally paid off.