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Costco will increase its starting wage to $16 an hour, surpassing most of its main competitors. Costco CEO Craig Jelinek announced the increase Thursday at a Senate Budget Committee hearing, led ...
Costco (COST) will boost its minimum wage by $1 to $16 starting next week, the membership warehouse retailer's CEO said on Thursday during a Senate panel hearing.
Costco is raising its minimum wage to $16 an hour, leapfrogging competitors including Target and Amazon. The pay hike goes into effect next week.
In February 2021, Costco announced that it would be raising the starting rate for its hourly store workers in the United States to $16 an hour. Costco has been actively raising their minimum wage starting with $14 during 2018, and into $15 during 2019. They further add that 20% of their hourly employees will be subject to the minimum wage change.
The federal minimum wage applies in states with no state minimum wage or a minimum wage lower than the federal rate (column titled "No state MW or state MW is lower than $7.25."). Some of the state rates below are higher than the rate on the main table above. That is because the main table does not use the rate for cities or regions.
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As of October 2023, France has the highest hourly minimum wage at $13.80 per hour. [1] The United States has a comparatively low minimum wage for hourly workers at $7.25 per hour. Unusually, this rate does not apply to tipped employees, who are only entitled to an hourly wage of $2.13, which contributes to a strong tipping culture in the country.
Costco CEO Craig Jelinek announced during a U.S. Senate Budget Committee meeting today that it will raise its hourly minimum wage to $16 an hour. The rate stands at one dollar higher than the ...