Apple Increasing Starting Pay for Hourly Workers to at Least $22 Per Hour

[iGeek2019]

$22 p/h comes to £17.46 before tax/ni/pension contributions - while I know this is for the US Apple employees I’d be living the good life on £17 p/h compared to the £10.78 I make now… (for context UK minimum wage is £9.50 = $11.97 before tax)

Same here. Based on the data you’ve provided, before tax and other deductible amounts I’d be on £2,549.16/mo.! Instead I have to do a lot of overtime on top of my core hours to even get close to £1,850/mo. (After deductions).

Mind you *if* Apple increased Retail colleagues by a significant hourly amount here in the UK I wonder if they’d offer lower working contractual hours like some companies like to do these days?

 

[progx]

But the real question is: in the US only? Or worldwide?

Other countries have different labor laws, which do affect pay. For example, bartenders in Ireland can make a living wage and afford a decent lifestyle compared to those here in the US. Biggest difference, they don’t need to rely on tips from the customer to make up their full salary. I’m sure Apple retail stores don’t have a static wage worldwide.

 

[Leon Ze Professional]

Nice! Apple Polishing Cloth Gang!

I have 10. All for myself ☹️

Buying in bulk hey? I like it.

 

[genovelle]

Almost a liveable wage. E for effort trillion dollar company

Remember that Trillion Dollars is vaporware. It doesn’t really exist as operating capital and can come crashing down with the wrong new report, real or speculative.

 

[vipergts2207]

Wow, I actually get to say the rare ‘good job’ to Apple. I have no doubt this is because of the pickup in unionization among retail and service industry workers. Regardless of Apple’s motives this is a good move for both Apple and the workers. I’ll say it again, if companies treat their employees fairly from the get go they won’t feel a need to unionize in the first place. I wish Walmart’s employees would start making a unionization push.

 

[vipergts2207]

They should unionize too.

When I see someone get salty and say “X job doesn’t even make that much” I think, so maybe they should f’ing unionize. People act like they just have to take whatever they’re offered in this system. No, organize with your coworkers and tell management, “f you, pay us.”

 

[JM]

15+ years into my graphic design career and $22 an hour still sounds like a pipe dream

For real. I’m looking at my hourly wage for design and wondering if I’m really getting paid enough.

 

[vipergts2207]

Until no one is able to afford it and they have to lay off most of their workers or close retail stores, haha.

What kind of successful business would intentionally cripple themselves over taking an very slightly reduced profit margin? You actually think Apple is going to hike the price of iPhones to the point where most people can no longer afford them, severely cutting into Apple’s sales and revenue? I hope you don’t run your own business.

 

[vipergts2207]

Only $22 pfft… I make more delivering food and that’s without the indoctrination procedures… WTF?

$22 is just the base and is subject to increases depending on the market and obviously position. It wouldnt surprise me at all to find with this increase for the average Apple retail employee to be making close to $30/hr. And while you might make more than $22/hr delivering food, it’s likely that comes with no benefits which Apple employees would get and doesn’t include your expenses for fuel and wear and tear on your vehicle for those deliveries.

 

[vipergts2207]

For a trillion dollar corporation it’s low-balling, even Panda Express have incentive to pay their workers up to $24 an hour, seen it advertised when I went into one of their restaurants.

Imagine thinking starting at $22 is somehow worse than up to $24. 😂
Back here in reality up to $24 simply means most employees making $13/hr.

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[vipergts2207]

And you don’t think executive pay raises, bonuses and shareholder buybacks don’t get passed down as well?

No no no, that’s all just proper, well-intentioned capitalism. Get out of here you commie! /s

 

[itsOver9000]

Might have to see what kind of remote job I can get with Apple, lol. That's more than I make now! 🙄

 

[cocky jeremy]

Apple feeling the union heat! good.

There's no heat. They can create a union and get replaced if they want. Apple will just pay someone else to do the work.

 

[svish]

Good for all the employees!!

 

[Lucas Curious]

Right. People think nurses make so much money and in the south that’s new grad pay. Not that nurses are more important than anyone. But it’s like… why go 20k in debt to work an insanely stressful job for $22/hr.

ouch. my family are nurses and they make around $60 an hour in LA and complain Nurses are underpaid. Who is the right mind would do that job for $22/hr? Also debt was more like 80k. They all got the virus too and one almost died.

 

[iHorseHead]

I’m glad that Apple is doing this

I applied to work at the Apple Store about 10 years ago but didn’t get hired at that time

I would love to try to reapply, especially now that the starting pay is $22/hour

Interestingly enough I applied back in 2013 and I did not get hired. I went to check out who got hired and I asked her a bunch of questions, such as: "Will this iPod run iOS 7 when it will be released?" she said: "I don't know, I have to Google that" and I also asked: "If I buy a Mac now will I get the next release of OS X for free?" and to which she replied: "I don't know". (It was before Mavericks and iOS 7 were released, but the betas were out). She didn't even know if it's possible to upgrade my old MacBook (Early 2008) to 4GB of RAM and yes, she was a new employee there.

When I complained about it to a friend of mine they said: "Well, you're interested in Apple and their products, but most people work for pay checks". I remember I wanted this job so bad and I spent hours on making my CV perfect and beautiful and wrote the best motivational letter I have ever written. I didn't even hear back from them though :/

 

[BrownyQ]

As nice as the pay might sound, peace of mind has become far more valuable to me than base pay. Good for those who'll benefit, but I'd rather work at the (slightly) lower wage I have now and not have to deal with the headaches of retail work.

 

[ajfahey]

High inflation is insidious. The raise you get does not improve your lifestyle.

 

[pray2crom]

Oh good, but what about the pay for the underage kids in China that are making our iphones?

 

[Mousse]

Noice. $22 an hour ain't nearly enough to entice me into retail/customer service work. Hail, $100 an hour ain't enough for me to deal with all the Karens/Chads😖 that darken the Apple Store doors. Lemme fight one Karen/Chad once a week without reprocussions.😙 I'd glady do retail work for $22/hour.

 

[hagar]

The other stuff is just wage but with extra steps (or restrictions).

That’s definitely not true. If you have a fantastic wage but zero holidays, there’s no money that can compensate for that.

 

[nylonsteel]

Well good on them - just wish my starting wage was 22 per hour back in the day

 

[Freida]

If you still want to work in a store after 10 years have passed then you have done something wrong in those 10 years.

I’m glad that Apple is doing this

I applied to work at the Apple Store about 10 years ago but didn’t get hired at that time

I would love to try to reapply, especially now that the starting pay is $22/hour

 

[macfacts]

This is just laying the groundwork for increasing iPhone margins! Do you remember $650?

 

[britabroad]

This is just laying the groundwork for increasing iPhone margins! Do you remember $650?

Do you remember the SE is $429?