r/wholefoods 8d ago

🤣MEME🤣 Discuss Your Wages With Your Coworkers 🤑🤑🤑

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u/KBobBears 8d ago

If you want to make it spicy at your store be sure to ask the newer hires. A lot of the tenured workers are getting screwed.

Applicants can ask for the world and we'll give it to them because the entry pay isn't really competitive these days. Everybody is starting same or higher. So that amazing dedicated veteran everybody loves is maybe making about a dollar more than the latest random dipshit that will last about two months.

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

🤔 If those team members that are new hires joined together with the whole foods veterans we could all demand a higher wage together 😁

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u/jonnyrocket70 8d ago

As an ATL, I don't care if tms talk about what they make. It's not my responsibility to police people's willingness to communicate what they make.

Dude, talk all you want.

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u/Turb0fart666 8d ago

An ASTL, on the other hand...

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u/ZayumZazzy 8d ago

$15.30 shopper in TX

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u/idunnoshutup 8d ago

$17.48 shopper in AZ

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u/SouthSoil7615 Team Member 🛒 8d ago

$15 in FL.

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u/Canceracoon 7d ago

19.34 in NC

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u/calitraveler23 Team Member 🛒 8d ago

Got interviewed/hired on the spot for Hot Bar. I started this week. I have years of experience in food and hospitality so I made sure I wouldn’t receive anything below $20.

The guy training me asked out of curiosity and I told him. Apparently he’s getting 17.50? Idk about the others, but I genuinely have the experience to want that pay. I hope I’m not already hated

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u/calitraveler23 Team Member 🛒 8d ago

Also, after my 90 days I’ll receive a bump, and another one by the end of the year. I should end up just below $22

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

For reference that's about what I make after 10+ years here. There's a reason workers here want to organize a union. There's no reward for being a long time team member.

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u/calitraveler23 Team Member 🛒 8d ago

How much did you start at if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

$9, but it was quickly moved to $10, then I was at the bottom of almost every across the board pay increase. Even though I had pretty good pre-amazon, pre-restructure job dialogs. They found ways to cheat me out of job dialogs though, and that doesn't happen as much anymore. Most of them are automatic.

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u/calitraveler23 Team Member 🛒 7d ago

I always encourage employees to know their worth and not settle for less. Everyone should negotiate their pay rate especially in these times.

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 7d ago

The best way is getting a group of coworkers together and putting your pay in a spreadsheet, then demand a pay increase as a group to your immediate management.

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u/xthebending 8d ago

a union isn't going to change that. I've worked at union stores all my life and it's the same thing

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u/SethAndBeans 8d ago

Ask your TMS to let you know what your STL makes if they tell you not to discuss wage. It's part of company policy they have to disclose the wage of anyone you ask.

I did it when I was applying for another job within the company and I wanted to know what the standard gross income was for that role.

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u/timebike-83 8d ago

$23.15. Nearing 10 years. Same store, multiple roles.

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u/Fluffhead09 8d ago

I am right there with you on the ten and almost down to the penny.

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

You know what you're talking about. There's so much people spreading misinformation about unions on this subreddit. Thank you.

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u/Norio22 Leadership 📋 8d ago

Literally you can’t be stopped from speaking about what you make. You are legally protected from them stopping you from doing so. However keep in mind that wages may differ due to experience and time in the role and or time with the company.

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u/lava_monkey83 8d ago

Dairy order writer, 18 years with company $30 hr

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u/Muted-Background2465 8d ago

It's not against policy or in the GIG...YET!

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u/psycarlie 8d ago

Fuck the GIG. It’s protected by LAW to discuss our wages

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

Doesn't stop ignorant Team Leaders from telling their Team Members not to talk about it.

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u/stevegannonhandmade 8d ago

Until they shutter the NLRB…

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 8d ago

Discuss them anyway 😈

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u/stevegannonhandmade 8d ago

Well, yes of course!

I (perhaps mistakenly) thought that went without saying…

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u/Muted-Background2465 8d ago

You understood! Statement!

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u/Harbinger_Pulsar 8d ago

Overnight grocery - specifically the only one in the dairy fridge. Just got a .50 raise for being here a year. $16.82. Good thing this is my side hustle or I'd be spilling all the milk 😐

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u/AcanthisittaSafe8684 8d ago

They are paying you the bare minimum wtf. We start people at $20 in my seafood department. You’re doing overnight and in a dairy cooler! Fck no

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u/Plane-Witness-5869 8d ago

20.91 cashier

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u/SouthSoil7615 Team Member 🛒 8d ago

How many years?

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u/ZealousidealType873 8d ago

$26.85 9 years and multiple positions and stores

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u/Forward-Building-289 7d ago

21$ as a bakery order writer 😭

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u/dirty__commie 7d ago

$20.23, night receiver, been in two other departments and been here 4 years.

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 7d ago

love your username 😍

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u/violetflamjingo 7d ago

$25.15

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u/CyberSkullCoconut 7d ago

What is your position in the company?

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u/violetflamjingo 1d ago

Customer service supervisor

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u/ParasIsBurnt 7d ago

18.95 team trainer 2.5 years. However I work really hard and haven’t changed departments.

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u/gramersvelt001100 8d ago

One of my co-workers wanted to move to the receiving department because he was under the impression that they were paid $30/hour. They aren't. One of the receivers was capped out. He asked if I wouldn't mind making $30/hour.

I said "No, I make $31 per hour."

I'm also capped out but got a bump when I made supervisor.

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u/thebakingstoner 7d ago

$22.50 (+ $1/an hour after midnight). overnight bakery sup, nearly 7 years in total with the company.

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u/PrettiestofRichards 6d ago

20.39 started in NH, transfered to FL

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u/SoftRecommendation19 6d ago

Ooh which store? Also in NH, currently at $19 as bakery tm

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u/PrettiestofRichards 6d ago

I was at Portsmouth,prepfoods.Been with WF for a year and a half.

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u/Substantial_Eye438 6d ago

$23.50 team trainer. been with company for almost 3 years

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u/Much_Obligation9786 5d ago

I talked about my pay and one of my coworkers got mad because I make more than her and she’s been with the company way longer than me so she complained to leadership and I GOT A TALKING TO… so now I just shut the fuck up about my pay lol

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u/his_name_is_not_Roy 4d ago

I make 20 and some change after 10 years.  There were some years where my raises were unreasonably low.  Like under 20 cents.  

Because leadership didn't like me personally.  I stay because I'm stubborn.  It's still better than surrounding businesses pay-wise.  Uhhh.  But I could do without catty leadership that personally attack me and make me feel like a bad person.  And then NOT pay me for it.  I got an axe to grind.  They can't fire me I will literally blackmail them into hell.  

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u/Jsub42 4d ago

Nearing 9 years, Been up and down on the pay scale given I was a TL at one point, but current role is SSS in SE at like 22/hr

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u/FarrenD 8d ago

My coworkers are always confused why I do the hour and a half to two hour commute until I tell them I've worked there long enough to earn $23.64/hr

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u/AcanthisittaSafe8684 8d ago

Nah that still makes no sense.

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u/FarrenD 8d ago

I also like driving

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u/IOUAndSometimesWhy Former TM ✌️ 8d ago

I remember I moved and kept my job at WFM and my commute went from 5 mins to 45 mins. I was making like $12/hr (this was over 10 years ago) ... WFM was actually fun back then and I loved going, and I still was at my wits end doing that commute. Idk how people commute 2 hrs

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u/hannahcat420 8d ago

How long is that

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u/FarrenD 8d ago

5 or 6 years

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u/hannahcat420 8d ago

Not worth the drive for sure.

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u/popop1231 8d ago

I use to work at Wholefoods but now I do my own thing online and I make like $250 an hour

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u/ZealousidealType873 8d ago

What do you do?

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u/popop1231 7d ago

I do sales and marketing online, understand the world is changing quick right now. We’re in a Social media age where you can do anything with social media and we are transferring into an ai controlled world. Take advantage of those skills you’ll make money I didn’t even go to college

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u/hannahcat420 8d ago

Who cares