Why do some people complain that Walmart doesn't pay enough to support a family?

Clerk positions at Walmart are part-time type jobs, like flipping burgers at McDonalds. Why would someone think a job that requires no skill or education or any other ability, pay like a career position? I read recently where a woman with five kids was complaining she couldn't support her family and her fiance' who was taking vocational classes on her 35 hours/week at Walmart. What am I not understanding? Do some people not know the difference between a job meant for supplemental income and a job meant to support a family?Why do some people complain that Walmart doesn't pay enough to support a family?
People don't understand supply and demand - yes, it applies to the job market too.



Those who are currently employed by Walmart and are hopeful that Walmart is somehow forced to raise their wages don't get it. If Walmart were to raise wages, it would then be a more desirable position, and someone more qualified would get it.



Right now Walmart may pay $8/hr for a high school drop out with no special skills to speak of. Why? Because that's the best person that wanted the job for that pay. You raise that to $10/hr and now you get some college students interested. Raise it a bit further to $13/hr or so and you get some people with 10+ years of experience in retail. Raise it to $60/hr and I might even consider working there.



That being said, the people who work at Walmart probably haven't been taught the laws of economics, so it's not hard to understand that they are complaining.Why do some people complain that Walmart doesn't pay enough to support a family?
You're right, but Walmart is notorious for being very bad employers. they have one of the highest turnover rate of all businesses. No benefits, no security, and no unions, in most locations. Up here in Quebec, Canada, a Walmart's employees finally won a union. Walmart's response? Close down the store and leave hundreds of people jobless.



35 hours is just hovering on full-time, and for a woman with 5 kids and a husband in school, it's likely she wouldn't be able to keep any full-time job. People in that position are desperate. Walmart takes advantage of people in her position, and doesn't care if she doesn't like it. If she quits, there's a hundred other desperate people right behind her to replace her spot.



You have to give her and her finance some credit - he's trying to educate himself so that he can go out and better support the family. But for right now, this woman has very few choices.Why do some people complain that Walmart doesn't pay enough to support a family?
No they did not educate themselves, and expect that the world and in this case Walmart owes them a living. No one told her to have 5 kids, that was her choice, so is getting an education and earning a better job. Bu an education I do not mean these quicky things you see advertised on TV those are just wasted certificates.Why do some people complain that Walmart doesn't pay enough to support a family?
I don't know what you are talking about, I have never heard about someone working at a place like walmart complaining about their wages. Everyone know that is a like a basement level minimum wage paying job.
Well that goes for most of the jobs now and days. So I will not give such a harsh answer as those above mine. I feel that there should be MORE jobs that pay better wages even if it is wal-mart cause alot of those companies take in Billions of dollars and choose to only compensate employees so much now and days. Yes I realize that there are many job categories such as high skilled and low skilled, but there are even people with college degrees or admireable backgrounds who cannot get a job making "liveable" wages or let alone even find a job. The problem is so simple but there are alot of morons out there who will not admit too it. And that is simply the cost of living out pacing wages in the job market now and days. But that process did not happen over night and is no surprise that the economy and housing market went tanking downhill. See the idea is too keep the prices of property as high as it can be to put more money in certain individuals pocket such as those all involved in the selling of property, pay Americans the lowest wages possible (outside of unions that is) and then extend credit to them at the same time so they can get by. So in my opinion, businesses may have a right to pay crappy wages in the ideology of capitalism which I don't agree with, but the damn cost of living and commodities should not outpace what the lower class Americans are making regardless of these phony "supply and demand" ideologies that are used to drive up prices for everything. Thats part of the many reasons the economy went downhill, yet the same practice and structures are still in place. Just as it always been and always will be no matter what happens, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Enough said!