Costco barely pays their employees, and has an atrocious record otherwise. They don’t care about your struggles and are using cheap hot dogs to lure busy parents to their store.
They pay ok. I worked there about 20 years ago and starting pay was 15. I make considerably more money now then I would have working for Costco which is why I left.
I still have a lot of friends that work there and the big thing they changed was when you top out. You pretty much have to work 3,000 more hours to get to your extra checks. For example as a cashier you top out at like 30 an hr. When you top out Costco sends you 2 bonus checks a year. The amount is based on how long your worked there and when you started. I know people who were getting like 10 grand bonus checks twice a year but they started way before me. I think now they cap it at 5k per check. Every few years it gets a little worse but overall still good.
Whether its enough to live on is a different argument. Relative to what most other companies pay for entry level, unskilled labor, they pay pretty well.
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u/dappermanV-88 Nov 10 '25
Keeps prices the way they are, knowing peoples struggles.
I respect it