Did Wal-Mart Wake Up? - The Arthur Page Society

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2001, approximately 38% of Wal-Mart employees worked in Wal-Mart Discount stores, 52% worked in Supercenters, nearly 10% worked in Sam’ Club stores, and less than 1% worked in Neighborhood Markets. Table 1 below shows the number of men ! and women working at year-end 2001 in each of the four Wal-Mart store Appendix E: Tables from Drogin’s Report – February 2003 types. Number Employees 350000 300000 250000 200000 150000 100000 Table 1 Number of Employees by Store Type, 2001 Gender 50000 50000Hierarchy – Management vs. Hourly 18. Women earn less money than men at Wal-Mart. This fact is due to women 0 0working disproportionately in the lower paying hourly jobs, and earning less money than Wal-Mart men holding the same Super- jobs. Table 3 Sam's compares the Neighborhood percentage of women in hourly Discount and salary jobs, Center in each of the four Club Wal-Mart store types. Market 16. Retail store employees include the hourly ! workforce, the store Table 3 management, and higher-level managers such as District Managers and Regional Percent Women in Hourly and Salary Jobs Vice Presidents. The store management By positions Store Type, include 2001 Store Manager, Co- Managers, Assistant Managers, and Management Trainees. The Management Percent Women 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Wal-Mart Discount Super- Center 7 Sam's Club Neighborhood Market Men Women 19. Management employees earn much ! larger salaries than the hourly average, compared to the approximately $18,000 48 earned by hourly employees. 4 Women are disproportionately working in the hourly jobs: about 65% of hourly %Wom Salary %Wom Hourly employees. For example, in 2001, management employees earned about $50,000 on employees are women while about 33% of management employees are women. ! !
Average Total Earnings 120000 100000 80000 60000 40000 20000 Table 8 Average Earnings of Men and Women in Store Management Jobs, 2001 Ave$ Men Ave$ Wom 0 25. The following Store table shows Cothe average Asst. total earnings Mgmt for men and women Mgr Mgr Mgr Trainee holding store management jobs and above store management jobs. ! Table 9 Average Earnings Higher-Level Jobs 7 Total % Average Earnings Job EEs Women Men Women Regional VP 39 10.3 419435. 279772. District Mgr 508 9.8 239519. 177149. Manager 3241 14.3 105682. 89280. Co-Mgr 2336 23.0 59535. 56317. Asst Mgr 18731 35.7 39790. 37322. Mgmt Trainee 1203 41.3 23175. 22371. Earnings Gap – Within Hourly Jobs 26. Table 10 compares average total earnings, and Table 11 compares the average hourly rates for men and women 16 in the four largest hourly jobs. The chart 49 illustrates the shortfall in female earnings and hourly rates compared to men in the same job. A complete list for all jobs, and for part-time and full-time workers, and !
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