What Is Walmart Starting Pay?

Glassdoor: The Average Salary of Walmart Assistants and Pharmacy Manager

According to Glassdoor salary data, Walmart assistant managers average $45,000 a year, which is right on target for the national average salary. The average pay increases to $48, 311 a year if you add bonuses and additional compensation. The average base salary for shift managers at Walmart is over $65k, which is 8 percent above the national average.

The total compensation increases to $78,000 after taking in the cash bonus, stock bonus and other financial rewards. The average pharmacy manager at Walmart makes 139,000 a year, which is 4% above the national average. Pharmacy managers make close to $160,000 a year if they get a bonus.

Glassdoor says that order fillers at Walmart make an average of $38,000 a year. There is also an average cash bonus of $2,600, stock bonus of $1,200, profit-sharing of $1,100, and commission-sharing of $220. Order fillers can make overtime which can push compensation up to over $35 an hour.

Walmart cashiers are responsible for bagging and loading merchandise. One former employee on Glassdoor said that Walmart cashier hourly wages ranged from $7 to $17, with the average falling at $9 an hour, which is "not bad out of high school, but hardly enough to live past that." The inventory control specialists at Walmart are mostly in the back room of the store, and are responsible for all inventory that comes in and out, as well as transporting merchandise to the sales floor using forklift or pallet jacks.

The average hourly rate for an inventory control specialist at Walmart is $10, which is 100 percent below the national average, according to Glassdoor. The pay increases to $20,396 a year when you add in bonuses and additional compensation. greeters at Walmart help customers get shopping carts, provide store directions, and other customer service duties, as well as meeting Walmart customers at the store's entrance.