What does Dollar Tree pay their employees?

[Archae]

Is their pay and any bennies that bad that they can't find ANYONE?

'All the workers quit' sign on closed Dollar Tree store says

SAINT FRANCIS, Wis. —
A sign at the Dollar Tree store in St. Francis Monday morning said, "This Dollar Tree will be closed until further notice. All the workers quit, and we must restaff."

"Are you surprised this store is locked up in the middle of the day?" WISN 12's Terry Sater asked a customer.

"Yeah, yeah exactly. This is the one I always come to," Karen Puestow said.

"Apparently, they can't find workers," Sater said.

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"It's really hard when you can't find good workers nowadays in the stores. Nobody wants to work," Camacho said.

https://www.wisn.com/article/all-workers-quit-dollar-tree-store-st-francis/38519560

[leftstreet]

1. I suspect not many at DU would know

[onenote]

2. Info on Dollar Tree wages

https://querysprout.com/how-much-does-dollar-general-pay/

[iemanja]

13. That's why they can't find workers.

[Earth-shine]

15. Dollar General is not Dollar Tree, but I'd bet the pay is similar.

And, starting soon, if not already, all items at Dollar Tree will be $1.25.

[Sherman A1]

3. From what I recall they do not pay very well at all

but, I'm sure it isn't all that difficult to find out.

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Maybe they all went to work at Hobby Lobby!

Raising their minimum wage to $18.50 there.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/hobby-lobby-raises-minimum-wage-to-18-50-hr/

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Human Resource robotic applicant trashing systems

Generation Z managers.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. It may all be a lie too

It's 4Q, business is sliding downward, managers have a budget for the year and they must stay within it. A marginal store it may be cheaper to keep it closed than to open it during the last weeks of the year.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. I'd bet Dollar Stores do VERY well around the holidays ...

Possible, but hard to imagine (for me) this would be the rationale.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. True, they do very big volume

but have low margins. Maybe the local workforce got tired of teaser pay rates to attract candidates while paying part time rates to all but managers. I've also read, and don't know if it's true, that their managers and ass't operations managers do the same work as employees - stock shelves, cashiering.

Now that companies know the 4thQ will be so-so, they don't want to pay those high wage rates. They're content to keep the wage bill down and see how things go.

[KG]

7. record low unemp., but nobody wants to work.

[maxsolomon]

11. Prior to the Pandemic the UE rate was 3.5%

Spiked to 14.8% at the start. Now it's down to 4.2%, but that's not a "record", is it?

[maxsolomon]

9. Customer Ms. Camacho has her head up her ass.

"Nobody wants to work" AT THE DOLLAR TREE.

If you quit, you don't get unemployment. So those workers are either going somewhere else at a higher wage, or they'd rather starve than work at Dollar Tree.

[NurseJackie]

10. Bad management.

[durablend]

12. $7.25 an hour for cashiers

I think managers are a wee bit more, like $9 or $10 an hour. (here in PA)

[ProfessorGAC]

16. From What I See Here, Pretty Bad

Oddly enough, the big DT warehouse 10 miles or so from our house pays $18/hour plus 100% of medical insurance coverage is paid.
So, their warehouse workers make 2.5 times what the retail workers get, as reported in this thread.
And, I'm guessing those retail workers get zero healthcare coverage.
BTW: that warehouse is not unionized. Well under 50% of the big warehouses around here (and there's a BUNCH of them), are union shops. That's despite the manufacturing sites in this area being 80%+ union shops.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

17. I have never talked to either a Dollar Tree or Dollar Store employee

who gets 40 hours a week. 30 is the most hours any of them get. That is usually the managers.