Fox News analyst and The Hill columnist Juan Williams took a pounding in the Twittersphere for his comment on Fox News that the midterm election results had not produced a Republican wave â not even close to a wave.. For part of Tuesday night, Williams' remark was trending No. 2 on Twitter.
Download a PDF on this topic. Walmart jobs are poverty-level jobs. Walmartâs average sale Associate makes $8.81 per hour, according to IBISWorld, an independent market research group. This translates to annual pay of $15,576, based upon Walmartâs full-time status of 34 hours per week 1.This is significantly below the 2010 Federal Poverty Level of $22,050 for a family of four.f Walmart were to pass this cost directly to shoppers, the average consumer would need to pay only 46 cents more per shopping trip, or $12.50 per year. In 2010, Walmart CEO Mike Duke received $18.7 million in total compensation, or 1,201 times the annual income of the average Walmart sale Associate.
Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told msnbc.com that he had not seen the document, but that Walmart offers âcompetitiveâ wages. âWeâre competitive with all of our competitors, even unionized ones, in pay and benefits,â he said. The average wage for a full-time hourly employee, he said, was $12.50. A new report by a policy analyst at Demos exhorts Walmart to raise its wages, arguing that the companyâs stringent compensation policies help to keep wages low across the retail industry.