A practical guide to designing pay structures — pay grades and bands, job evaluation, market benchmarking, and balancing internal equity (fairness within) with external competitiveness (the market).
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A true account of a female Best Buy employee who began with little experience who makes more than her male counterparts, making the wage gap seem not as serious as some may think.
I work at Best Buy. I started in June of 2013 as a Sales Transaction Assistant, a long name for cashier. I had a year or so experience working at a TINY radio station in a town of less than 6,000 people and 3 months of working at Burger King in that same town. So, basically no retail experience. My starting pay? $9 an hour. A guy that also had no retail experience started in the same position at the same time as me making $8.50 an hour.
Flash forward to September. I move up to being an MCSA, which is a glorified title for someone that answers phones, does in-store pick up orders, and processes sales over the phone. My pay now? Higher than it was as an STA. No one at Best Buy makes commission.
That same guy that started with me as an STA applied for the open MCSA position a few months ago and didn't get it because someone from another Best Buy in our district transferred here, also from a department that wasn't MCSA.
November, 2013. My boyfriend got a job as a home theater sales associate at Best Buy. He had over a year experience working retail at Walmart, plus a few other retail jobs from the time he was 14 or so until now. His starting pay as a sales consultant? $8.50. WITH retail experience.
My thoughts on this are: retail stores are more likely to hire females due to the fact that females bring in male shoppers and keep them coming back. I realize that feminists might add that this is all a part of objectifying women. In a way it is, but at least they're compensating us for it. I'm willing to bet that most women in retail had a higher starting wage than males and likely are climbing up the pay grade just as fast, if not faster, than most men.
So, before you go spewing about the wage gap --- think about the fact that the wage gap you're really referring to is the high paying CEO positions. Why is there such a high wage gap for these positions? Different companies are going to pay their higher ups different amounts of money, no matter the gender. So, unless you're comparing from one male CEO to a female CEO in a huge corporation, the wage gap is not as big of an issue as you may think.
Note: This was meant to open some eyes to the retail world and how the pay works, at least at Best Buy.
Links: 20 Jobs Where Women Make More than Men
Top Hourly Wages in Retail (2013) - Best Buy is number 14 on this list. Ranking the average pay for a cashier at $8.92, LOWER than both the men mentioned above's real pay. 90% of the cashiers at my store are women.
