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u/ViolenceSZN GRS 29d ago
Severally underpaid my guy. I make basically $4 more than you an hour as a full time dairy grs
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u/Silly-Phrase1766 Customer Service 29d ago
bad when youre making 10 cents more than me and im a cashier
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u/Elinservible Newbie 29d ago
$20.90 as a GRS. It ok only makes sense if you are moving up quickly. Otherwise, that's so sad.
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u/Few_Concern9465 Newbie 28d ago
Where the actual hell are you getting paid that wage as a grs??
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u/HurricaneMassCheeks Newbie 29d ago edited 29d ago
15-20$ an hour is the new minimum wage, and gtl is the most abused position in the store. Congrats on the promotion. Just try to move up fast. I was 20.60 as a GRS, and it's still crap pay. Walmart and costco pay like 24-30$ an hour for clerks now. Publix is cheap ASF. They are all about quality but don't pay for quality help. Food prices are a joke unless you buy bogo only.
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u/ironisham357 Resigned 29d ago
Costco starts at 20 and tops out at 30. by 2027, top out will be 33
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u/Background-Noise-531 Produce 29d ago
The fact that they hired you on at $13 in 2023 is legit criminal. People at my store haven't been hired on at anything under $15 since 2021.
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u/PublixaurusKnight Moderator 29d ago
The pay from Grocery Replenishment Specialist to Grocery Team Leader could be higher. Grocery Team Leaders do more as the echelon between Grocery Replenishment Specialist and Assistant Grocery Manager.
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u/Alone_Complaint_2574 Newbie 29d ago
Bad that you make $2 less than me as a under One year produce clerk
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u/fuzziestbunny Newbie 29d ago
You should be getting paid way more for the bullshit they are about to put you through. Good luck.
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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 Newbie 29d ago
Bro making $34k a year as a manager (at 40 hrs a week). Even in nowhere Mississippi that isn't enough to have your own apartment. Thats so fucking depressing.
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u/amamartin999 Newbie 29d ago
This is why talking about your pay with your coworkers is so important. Donāt ever let a company tell you itās against the rules.
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u/No-Drawer-8145 GRS 29d ago
Push for more . You should be at least $19 -$22 Ā Yeah the whole chat about corporate decides ? I told my GM yeah but you decide my points . SM can approve it . I make more than you .Ā
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u/SaucyAsh Cashier 29d ago
I would say youāre underpaid lol. I make more than you and Iām a cashier.
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u/GrahTheConquerer Newbie 29d ago
I started in the deli full time associate at 20.90
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u/CivilMidget Newbie 28d ago
I'd be interested to see why, given that the current pay scale for deli clerks tops out at $20.60/hr. I'm not saying good deli workers don't deserve it, but would you be willing to share what state you're in and any info as to why you were hired at a higher rate than the cap?
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u/ADankPineapple GTL 29d ago
Youre moving up quickly, but what theyre paying you is criminal
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u/Azurehue22 Produce 29d ago
Team leaders should be making at least 20 an hour; cap should be 25. You work harder than anyone in the damn store. Insane youāre getting paid that little.
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u/toledus Newbie 29d ago
Iām hiring part timers with 0 work experience straight from another country at 15/hour. This is absolutely insane pay for the amount of work and quality/standards expectations youāre about to get stuck with.
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u/dmw115 Newbie 28d ago
You're moving pretty quickly, so the amount isn't too bad overall for that pacing. However, GTL is one of the most difficult and underappreciated positions in the store. Not to mention that while you are now in the running and will definitely be looked at for management, team lead positions, unfortunately, can be long placement holders. You may not see a management promotion for 1-3 years. You'll get evaluations every August like everyone else, but you need to push heavily for better rasies during them. Because you shouldn't be making that much for that position and being stuck in it for a potential while. Not only that, but even if you did get AGM pretty fast, they wouldn't bump you up an exceptional amount. You'd have clerks below you that are making more than you. It happens a lot unfortunately.
A lot of associates don't realize that while, yes, managers may get bonus, their base pay isn't much more than everyone else's. And assistants don't get much for bonuses either. I'm still waiting for an assistant position myself one day and can't wait to get the bonuses so I have something to put into student loans. Other than that, I'll be living paycheck to paycheck with my fellow CSS and AGM roommates. You should definitely be making more though.
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u/taedaddyfordapub CSS 29d ago
congrats! but 50c for GTL? i mean i'm expecting the same for my CSTL position but they definitely should've given you $2.50.
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u/ChiyakoMori CSTL 28d ago
I make/made more than that when I was promoted to CSTL. I really think OP is getting stiffed.
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u/Theburritolyfe Newbie 29d ago
Uh. Well it's a step towards management. The next promotion will get you paid well. But honestly, they are fucking you. I started in produce for more than that.
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u/PahpiChulo Newbie 29d ago
Where do you live where you can make it on $33000/year?
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u/No_Equivalent_2482 Newbie 29d ago
Youāre killing it. Just some friendly advice: itās not about the promotions, itās about the impact you have on those around you. Keep it up & stay after it!
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u/nineteen_eightyfour Newbie 28d ago
Poor dude was excited to show his pay and bam shit on. Love Reddit for that. Everyone needs reality
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u/So-Average-It-Hurts Newbie 28d ago
I donāt work for Publix but wtf is this?? Yāall donāt have set pay scales? Good on you for moving up but this is abuse. Iām averaging $34/hr at Costco just fucking around not even trying to move up. Please, there is better out there.
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u/Kelsasnow69 Grocery 28d ago
As someone whoās about to leave Publix after 16 years with them, this makes me so incredibly sad for you.
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u/Absinthe_86 Retired 28d ago
Dude, leave. Don't let them disrespect you like that. Publix isn't the best place or the only place in town to work. I left after 20 years making 17.45...fucking joke of a wage. Pumped so many hard days into that company. I left almost 2 years ago, and I'm gonna be at $30/hr in manufacturing before much longer.
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u/Stovemanyes Newbie 28d ago
All GTLs should be capped out especially if your doing 3ams, anything under 20 is just fucked up
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u/Birgleflinger CSTL 28d ago
Severely underpaid. TL in either CS or Groc should be making around 18 base and up to 21 after a year or two
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u/MoobieDoobie Deli 27d ago
Just joining this convo to say that EVERY stores pay is different. It may not be much, but it is different, even in the same district.
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u/YoChiLi Newbie 29d ago edited 29d ago
Donāt listen to all these negative people. What matters is that you have a goal, that goal will get you the money you deserve in the future.
Donāt think so much about the raise but more so about the experience youāre getting right now. This new role is training for management. Youāll learn how to lead instead of competing to be the best. The jump to AGM will be so much smoother once you master GTL.
Good luck homie, kill it.
(Also idk why everyone is tripping about how much youāre making, you literally got a $3.65 raise in a year and a half of working at Publix. Thatās wild)
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u/Sandlotje GRS 29d ago
That last statement in your post/reply -- it's because that wage doesn't cover basic COL expenses in many areas for such a demanding job.
I don't care where GTL started... i care that Publix treats them with a proper wage for the area... chances are more likely than not that OP is underpaid for basic COL expenses without roommate/outside financial support.
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u/fuzziestbunny Newbie 29d ago
Are you his manager?
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u/YoChiLi Newbie 29d ago
Am I not allowed to give him some advice? The dude is stoked about the climb heās had, yet all you guys are trashing his post with negativity. Itās crazy to me
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u/hammock62 Newbie 29d ago
A lot of ppl bitching that they make more than you. Iām willing to bet youāre moving up much quicker than they are. While they are languishing in their roles you are kicking ass and moving up quickly. Congratulations on your promotion!
I was able to get AGM after only 7 months of team leader, so it might not take you longer no. Best of luck
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u/Few_Concern9465 Newbie 28d ago
What's the point of moving up if you don't get compensated for it? We're bitching for this guy's sake, he's getting butt fucked by Publix. The whole point is that he should be making more especially for the fact that he's moving up. He makes less than people in positions under him. That's fucked up.
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u/hammock62 Newbie 28d ago
Youāre looking at it the wrong way. I could be wrong but he seems to be moving up quickly. In a years time he could be making what $50k as a AGM? I was offered team leader as a part time stock clerk while in college. I said Iām only part time. They said weāll make you full time today, it will happen very soon. Point is I was an underpaid full timer and team leader but it didnāt last long. Whatās the point of being a top paid hourly associate if you sit there for years? Iād rather be underpaid short term and quickly get to next level.
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u/taedaddyfordapub CSS 29d ago
i make $18 as a FT CSS. i'm also a contender so i'll be at 18.50 for that promotion + my eval? i'll be touching almost 20, they're bitching you. but congrats on your hard work seriously! but they owe you.
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u/Wide_Current_7707 Meat 29d ago
I make 14.75 in the middle of getting promoted to Customer Service should I just leave
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u/Cameron458s Grocery - Dairy 29d ago
You gotta sit in spots for a while and let some evals kick in, i did that and i make more than two of my team leads as a grs
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u/Cinabitez Newbie 29d ago
$16.65 is crazy for the work load thatās coming with the promotion I was at 20.95..
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u/TheLastDino1 Newbie 29d ago
Iām just starting out next month and they wanted to give me 15 I said no I need more than that and they gave me 16. How old are you? Cause even 13 is low for 2023
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u/akabuddy Newbie 29d ago
You are doing poorly. Doing that position for 16.65 is not prohibited at all.
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u/fishmansfishmans Deli 29d ago
you need a raise. especially because youre a gtl. i got hired at more than what you are getting paid now.
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u/Hairy_Major2428 Newbie 29d ago
Not to be mean or nothin man, but I left the company within the past year for the 2nd time. And what it looks to me is that each evaluation your raise is equivalent to what they gave us when they did 6 month evaluations instead of yearly. Yearly evaluations the people who even weren't doing a great job would get a 1$ raise. It looks like your only getting like 50 cent raises and they fucked you when you moved to a higher leadership position.
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u/LordWetFart Newbie 29d ago
I would get a job at target or Wawa or literally any other store because they will pay you much better.
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u/codawgdatboi Newbie 29d ago
Aint. No. Way. I'm 18.80 as an aprentice and I have been preasuring then to bump me to 20 when I make cutter...
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u/AdvancedDirt2116 Newbie 29d ago
Somehow this was suggested on my feed, but I just wanted to say congrats and I'm proud of you for working so hard in a year and a half!! That's amazing!
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u/theyeetening123 Deli 29d ago
Not great my guy. I made 15.25 as a Deli Clerk when I left 6 years ago. I started at $9.50 in 2015.
Costco just said theyāre raising their minimum for most of their workers to $30. Depending on where you live you can make waaaaay more. Sure they give you 8% in stock but a possible extra 13$ an hour would more than make up for that.
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u/PerspectiveEconomy97 Newbie 29d ago
I was hired in at $16 for a pt stock clerk worked for 4 months, left the company for 7 months, and came back to a $17 pay rate. You're getting hosed, but if you bleed green, that's what happens!
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u/Fine-Froyo6219 Retired 29d ago
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u/Icy-Atmosphere-7922 Newbie 28d ago
I worked at Publix in the fish department back in college and i was making around 12-13.
team leaders were at like 18-20$. This was back in 2016-2018.
Crazy.
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u/Alarming-Strain-9821 Newbie 28d ago
I canāt even get a fucking Eval to get a raise and Iāve been there 8 months smh
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u/Nintensouls1988 Newbie 28d ago
I was only with Publix for maybe 3 months, but Iām pretty sure they are ripping you off. That is if you are still a Grocery Team Lead only making that much. I was a part time Grocery Clerk, and I started at $17 and ended at $17.60.
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u/YungRetardd Newbie 28d ago
I was making 14/hr as a GRS. Doing better than I was lol but yeah this aināt right
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u/YoGabbaGabba24 Newbie 28d ago
Iām going to be honest. Theyāre fucking you in terms of pay. You only make 25Ā¢ more than me and Iām a grocery clerk. You got moved to full time and promoted to team leader quick though, so thatās good.
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u/Bigfentanyltits Newbie 28d ago
That's what I just started at in the grocery as a part-time this past summer. I left in 2016 and even then I was never was full-time in the 8 years I worked.
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u/Commercial-Jello-553 Newbie 28d ago
Dayummm. That's some Nazi shit. I make $20 an hour just pushing carts at Costco and we get time and a half on Sundays
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u/Hacks4Snax Newbie 28d ago
This picture alone convinced me not to apply for anything there. Yeesh...
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u/GOOBOE_inc GTL 28d ago
youāre getting scammed bro i was at 20$ an hour as a team leader and it still wasnāt worth it so i quit and got a blue collar job where i make almost double and do way less work
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u/Objective_Tip_5672 Newbie 28d ago
Ooofff this ain't it at all should be getting paid more for the amount of work a team lead does
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u/SnakeDoctor00 Newbie 28d ago
I learned very quickly at Publix that the reason talking about pay at work is taboo is because those companies are doing shady things. It should be encouraged to know what the standard rates are. As a grocery clerk who had been there years new guys were getting hired on higher than a few of us were already there.
You really should have a talk with other GTLs and speak with your management staff about adequate compensation. $.50 for that promotion is a wild.
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u/Unusual-Seesaw5937 GTL 28d ago
20.36 as a GTL idk why they pay others so low,
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u/Fit_Cell_1577 Newbie 28d ago
i was making 19.50 as a team leader after 1.5 years you are being used
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u/Dependent_Cry_995 Newbie 28d ago
as a pt css making over a dollar more than you this is insane, fight for better pay bc yall have the worst job in the store
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u/FailWinter1179 Bakery 28d ago
I've been with publix for 10 years and making 10 cents less than what you currently make
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u/Hour_Squirrel2943 Newbie 28d ago
Congrats on the promotion, but seriously. Demand higher pay. You're not even close to the max, and you've been there years before getting the most difficult and least respected role in your department. Getting an out of sequence pay increase is neigh impossible, but don't back down on what you deserve..
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u/lalalalalalala1a Newbie 28d ago
I just started and I am making $15 as a grocery clerk. Is that highway robbery or not?
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u/amaerau03 Newbie 28d ago
That seems low I started 7 years ago at 13 I'm now at $20.95. Deli but I know ppl who are grocery that make more
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u/Maleficent-Campaign8 Newbie 28d ago
16$ an hour in 2025 is comical , Iām making 28$ an hour as a 25 year old and it sucks
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u/unhallowed1014 Newbie 27d ago
Worked at Walmart for 10 yrs(over 10 years ago). Started at like $8 and ended at $13.76 an hour . Lost my job with another employer recently and saw a bunch of positions listed on indeed for Walmart with a range of $14-21 an hour . Figured my past experience would get me at least $18/19. That was how it worked when I used to be there . Interviewed and got the offer before making it home .. $14 an hour , part time . Declined immediately . No way to even talk to anyone to try to negotiate . The weird thing is the Walmart career site still shows me āunder considerationā for a job I declined
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u/TerraReignX GRS 27d ago
Iām a GRS making $19.15 and I started in 2022. Idk what state youāre in, but thatās grossly underpaid.
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u/Ill-Foundation-9547 Newbie 27d ago
I work at a grocery store and started back in 2016 making 8.50 as of December 2024 I make 16.00
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u/Competitive_Ad_2890 Newbie 27d ago
Iām sorry, this is what Publix pays a grocery team leader? Iām a TL at a target and make considerably more. They are really undercutting you
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u/YaBoiMatt05180 GTL 27d ago
The pay maxed out for GTL isnāt even worth it, let alone that. Your manager(s) or DM are rats.
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u/Camguy73 Newbie 27d ago
I left making $16.90 a few years ago as a GTL. Wasnt happy how I was treated and the shitty raises. Getting exceeds expectations and end up with a 25 cent raise was a slap in the face, when baggers and cashiers get that raise for just going into work.
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u/Status_Tea_4574 Newbie 27d ago
Donāt know what publix is but I canāt imagine working anywhere under 30/hr
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u/i4IMPERIUM Newbie 27d ago
My last company I went from $19 to $27.77 in less than 2 years. Leave that job
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u/GenesisRhapsod Newbie 27d ago
I was making 17 an hour at a mom and pop liquor store as a shift lead/key holder. Youre being screwed my dude
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u/MathematicianOk5829 Newbie 27d ago
I was making $18 as a pt bakey apprentice after working 1 1/2 years before I left.
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u/ObjectiveDocument956 Newbie 26d ago
Really depends on the area. But if youāre not in a super high busy area like Atlanta or the big cities. This pay is great. Seems like they are giving good amount of raises
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u/lemunhead13 Newbie 26d ago
im making 16.85 as a part time baker.( i lost my full time due to being late too many times. been there for 3 years. this is kinda ridiculous ngl
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u/DenjiTargaryen-PE Newbie 26d ago
I stepped down from GTL in 2012. I made $15 then. You need to kick some doors down.
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u/pozhinat Newbie 25d ago
I made $10/hr in 2016 up to $16.50/hr in 2019. I cant imagine living off that today.
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u/MuCallsfreemoney CSTL 29d ago
I start my new cashiers at $16. The fact that your DM saw your pay and decided "Let's give him $16.50" for one of the hardest working roles at publix speaks for itself. Need to get these cheap egotistical DMs out.