If Walmart is paying more, than it's time to go work for Walmart. As the other comment said, they're greedy, and the only way to get around this is to show them that they won't take it. They lowered the wage because they know the employees won't do anything about it.

They're greedy, not stupid.

The condition of the laboring man at Walton's

Given the high inflation, his pay has actually been reduced $2.50, not $2.

Name and shame.

For reference, the highest state* minimum wage in the US is Washington State at $17.13 (in Seattle it's $21.30).

*not counting Washington DC

Wage laws across the US are all over the place. Meanwhile the federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

Yeah one of the most trumped up thing of our time is rising costs and lowering wages. I simply will not work to lose money. Its not a tough equation. It has to pay for food, houseing, utilities, transit, etc. If you can't so much as get a beer because your already in the red. whats the point.

he was hired at 13 an hour. Now it’s 11

You mean that new people get a lower starting wage? Or that his own wage has been lowered?

He needs to lower his output!

11$ per hour is not an okay wage in the U.S.

Classic

Everything is more expensive so we will pay the most important part of the business, the employees who need the money to live, even less. This only makes sense in bizzaro land.

You're a better parent than the ones I have who would laugh at my learning experience as they tell me "welcome to the real world"

why is he wirking gis arse off? ge is not being paid enough to do that. as team lead he should be encouraging the same.

The Federal Minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. It has been raised only twice since 1997, for a total of $2.10.

Some states have a higher minimum wage, but many Red states remain at, or default to, the Federal Minimum Wage.

Chris Rock said that "Minimum wage is your boss telling you that he'd pay you LESS, but it's AGAINST THE LAW!"