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A recent survey of companies with the top employee compensation and benefits was littered with tech companies, with one notable exception. Sandwiched between the Google and Facebook at the top of the list, based on employee reviews, was a company from an industry not known for good pay and perks. The industry: retail. The company that's more than bucking the low-pay trend: Costco.
Just take a look at hourly wages of some of the lowest paid workers at major retailers and you get a sense for how far ahead of other retailers Costco is at compensating its workers. Glassdoor, where employees can anonymously report salaries (the same company that conducted the survey), shows that the average salary for a cashier at Costco is $11.85 per hour. A sales associate at Walmart is bringing in an average of $8.85 per hour. The average hourly wage for cashiers at Sam's Club is slightly higher at $9.36 per hour. Target cashiers average $8.18.
Of course, that doesn't mean Costco employees are being paid like they work at a company like Facebook or Microsoft. The average hourly wage is around $21. That's not a lot considering that Facebook interns can make double what the average hourly worker at Costco makes in a month, assuming a 40 hour work week.
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http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bull...ook-employees/
Another reason to support Costco. Not that you needed one.