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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.
Leave Walmart out of it. 24,400 a year for a 40 hour workweek is $11.75 an hour, $4 above minimum wage. What REALLY is illustrative of the though times ahead for laborers is that someone making minimum wage, working full time, cannot support themselves in this country. Minimum wage in NY state is $7.75 an hour.