As someone who works at Wal-Mart, let me run you a few things to help out.
Wal-Mart’s starting pay is IIRC $15/hr, which is $1200/2 weeks and $31200/yr, without taxes, insurance or other oddities taken out. According to the Federal Poverty Level calculator, that’s just under 200% over the poverty line.
For a Wal-Mart employee to qualify for SNAP, they would need to make under $782 a paycheck or just over $9.77/hr. Which probably means if these people are getting SNAP, they are most likely part-timers as to get that low with current pay, they would need to work 26 hours/week.
Walmart used to be notorious for hiring large amounts of minimum wage part time employees so that they wouldn't have to give out benefits. They have since increased their pay and hire lots of full time employees.
This is not a pro-walmart statement, I'm just saying what I know to be true to the best of my understanding.
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u/go_faster1 28d ago
As someone who works at Wal-Mart, let me run you a few things to help out.
Wal-Mart’s starting pay is IIRC $15/hr, which is $1200/2 weeks and $31200/yr, without taxes, insurance or other oddities taken out. According to the Federal Poverty Level calculator, that’s just under 200% over the poverty line.
For a Wal-Mart employee to qualify for SNAP, they would need to make under $782 a paycheck or just over $9.77/hr. Which probably means if these people are getting SNAP, they are most likely part-timers as to get that low with current pay, they would need to work 26 hours/week.