Wal-Mart Shares Its Wealth

Workplace Buzz on March 23, 2009 12:27 PM

As anger and controversy continues about bonuses paid to executives at firms such as A.I.G. that took government bailout money, one that has not -- Wal-Mart -- has quietly handed some 1 million rank-and file-employees almost $1 billion. The $933.6 million in bonuses was an increase of 46.7% over last year. Wal-Mart, the country's largest employer, saw its U.S. work force grow last year by about 33,800, to 1.45 million.

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Any thing the associates get from the company is only a fair thing. I have worked for Walmart for the past 16 years and I look forward to getting a slice of the pie

— Posted by Bill OBrien | March 24, 2009 6:46 AM | Comment Permalink

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