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I'm more of a lurker, but I figured I'd chime in. I work for a major retailer, Sears part time in the office and our old HR made $17 but that was because she was there for 30+ years. When she retired, they hired someone new, but I know the pay scale is is not very much. They start off at 11.20 and I think the max you can make is 15 and they don't give raises every year (or ever). It's not very much. Retail stores pay crap.
Yes, this is because in retail HR is done at the market/region and corporate level. "HR" in the store is really more of a coordinator. HR at the market level usually starts out around 60-75k. Those are the people doing actual HR work (compliance issues, looking at employee complaints about management, etc.)
I worked at Menards, which is a competitor to Lowes and Home Depot in the Midwest. Our store HR people were paid slightly more than regular full-time employees. Base pay was probably $25-$30K a year, plus profit sharing and some small staffing bonuses. I would guess that top pay for someone who got all the bonuses and maxed out on their profit sharing would be maybe $50K, certainly no more than that.
I don't know what other retailers pay, but Menards is generally one of the better paying retailers out there.
talked to my supervisor and she said i should start out making around $40,000 as an assistant or technician and with experience get into $50,000-$60,000 career.
Not in a store though. In a corporate or regional office maybe.
Yet the TITLE OF YOUR THREAD IS HR AT RETAIL STORES!!!!!!
Sorry, but if you are this detailed, you are not going to succeed in HR
yeah, but read the description in OP. this is the world wide web, not some dang career. i can do the hell whatever i want here and don't need some crazy person telling me otherwise
yeah, but read the description in OP. this is the world wide web, not some dang career. i can do the hell whatever i want here and don't need some crazy person telling me otherwise
Going out on a limb here and guessing you don't like it when people tell you things that are not what you want to hear. Also, you are not very good at defending your position when someone tells you that you are not correct. Run, do not walk, away from a career in HR
I've mentioned this before, but I'm just amazed at how little a store or fast food manager can make. It's got to be more demanding work than what I do in my blue collar job, but we make $20 making the medical products we produce. I suppose they are high profit margin products so they can afford it, but still. Our wage is not the norm though.. most other manufacturing in town has fairly pathetic pay as well. It's amazing that people can afford the houses here... I suppose with 2 full time incomes or if they bought 10 years ago when everything was cheap...
I'm so grateful to have a livable wage job without a college education that is rock secure... I'll never lose it no matter how bad the economy gets, that I simply don't want to leave here even though I don't necessarily like the climate or topography of the area. There are people who work there that are not grateful though, that seem to take the place for granted. I'd like to see them find other $20 per hour blue collar work with climate controlled working conditions easily somewhere else.
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