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Originally Posted by GatorB
48K is tiny?
My whole COUNTY is only 17K. By the way $108K is about what the store manager at the local wal-mart ges paid.
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Whether that's accurate or not, I can't say since the manager of our local Wal-Mart hasn't returned my calls.
http://www.youareworthmore.org/node/8444 lists it at $89k. My father was store manager for a local lumber chain years ago and his salary peaked at significantly less than that.
But if true, I'm sure they can afford to pay store manager's plump salaries because:
In 2001, the last year for which Wal-Mart has released figures for most occupations, sales associates, the most common job in Wal-Mart, earned on average $8.23 an hour for annual wages of $13,861.The 2001 poverty line for a family of three was $14,630. (Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?;, Business Week, 10/6/03 and US Dept of Health and Human Services 2001 Poverty Guidelines, 2001)