Walmart FAQ

More PTO compared to other corporate retail pharmacies, cheaper insurance rates, better 401k match, better maternity leave benefits as well as you get parental leave.

Pretty much like a CVS and Walgreens but with better benefits. You’ll still be working like a corporate slave.

Great pay, easy work, amazing maternity leave, good insurance.

Management teams do not communicate well. Bonuses are bad now for anyone with more than two points. When they add benefits they take away a lot too.

Walmart Academies is an immersive training program that is tied to a working supercenter, allowing associates to receive both classroom and sales floor training in advanced retail skills and soft skills like leadership, communications and change management. As of spring 2018, our nearly 200 Academies nationwide have trained more than 500,000 associates. Pathways is a comprehensive training program that will create clear career paths from entry-level positions to jobs with more responsibility and higher pay. In Walmart’s fiscal year 2018, we promoted more than 230,000 people to higher-paying jobs with increased responsibility. More than 75% of our salaried store management teams started as hourly associates. Store managers, on average, earn $170,000 annually and manage and help mentor 300 associates. Full- and part-time associates are eligible for quarterly bonuses based on store performance. In Walmart’s fiscal year 2018, associates earned more than $625 million in bonuses.

Maternity: The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work. Birth mothers can take up to 10 weeks of protected paid maternity leave. They’ll receive 100% of their pay, based on their average weekly wages. They can use the new parental benefit (see below) for an additional six weeks, for a total of 16 weeks of protected paid leave for birth mothers. Parental: The parental benefit supports associates who become a parent through a birth, adoption or foster-care placement, with up to six weeks of protected paid time away from work. It's available to associates in all states, including California, Oregon and other paid parental leave states. The parental benefit is for new legal parents, guardians and foster parents only. New parents can take up to six weeks of protected paid parental leave. The associate’s time away needs to be continuous, meaning they take it all at once. The associate can use their parental benefit at any point in the 12 months following the date they became a new parent through a birth, adoption or foster-care placement. Salaried associates may also be able to use the two-week family care pay program to cover the time they care for a spouse or dependent who has an eligible medical condition. Associates receive 100% of their pay, based on their average weekly wages. Adoption: This benefit pays associates back, up to $5,000, for expenses related to

Decent pay and flexible with hours

Bad management and no maternity leave for part time

Paid maternity leave, generous attendance policy, good hours, fair compensation

Customers treat you badly, Policies and procedures aren’t upheld,

When you tell an associate you’re going to help them or resolve and issue, make sure you do it as soon as possible.