Home Depot Hourly Workers Set to Get Pay Increase
Home Depot announced today it will spend $1 billion to increase wages for its hourly workers. The increase makes the company’s starting wage at or above $15 an hour, according…
Home Depot Raising Pay for Frontline Hourly Workers
The Associated PressHome Depot announced today it will spend $1 billion to increase wages for its hourly workers. The increase makes the company's starting wage at or above $15 an hour, according to the company's president and CEO, Ted Decker.
The raise went into effect February 6 with some workers already seeing the pay hike on their February 17 paycheck. Others will see their increase on February 24.
Home Depot, which is based in Atlanta, has more then 2,300 stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico.
"This investment will help us attract and retain the best talent into our pipeline," said Decker.
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