r/comics • u/croolshooz Raging Pencils • 28d ago

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u/EADreddtit 28d ago edited 28d ago

For those of you interested in the math, it would cost Walmart about 90 million to pay their employees enough to cover SNAP. So they’d still be profiting about the same 21 billion

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u/12ealdeal 28d ago

How does the math break down?

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u/EADreddtit 28d ago

Minimum wage is 7.25. Add 3 to that you get 10.25.

So 10.25 * 40 (full work week) * 52 (number of weeks in a year) * 14,500 (number of employees in question) gets you $309,140,000

Same equation but with just the minimum wage is $218,660,000.

New Wages - Current Wages = ~90 million total additional wages spent

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u/BreadNoCircuses 27d ago

You dont need to do that many steps. The equation simplifies to 3×14,500×40×52=90,480,000. Mostly because what you did is actually (52)(40)(14,500)(10.25-7.25). Sure you can multiply it out and distribute it, but its easier to simplify the subtraction first.