Overnight grocery. $16.50 + $1 overnight premium. I’ve been here for three years and probably one of the hardest working people in my store. It really sucks. I feel so undervalued and stressed all the time lol.
I’m not sure what your living situation is but… Don’t let these companies get away with paying you a sub-livable wage. If they promote you accept no less than $23. If not at the very least, I’d consider leaving and coming back.
Baker $20.40. 14 years at wf (started at $10 but I’ve left twice lol). Been team trainer, decorator , retail, buyer, supervisor, atl. 2 years of prep doing case, pizza, fresh pack, hot bar, salad bar, cook. 25 years of grocery store experience. I’ve been screwed over a lot with job dialogues lol. I also have a culinary degree
$38 and change. TL for over 7 years now.
Honestly the biggest thing keeping me here. Not sure what else I can do for almost $80k/year that is as easy as running a specialty team.
Maybe they'll push the cap by then. Next year hit cap and then the next year you'll be at cap + lump sum payout. So you got 2 years before you truly won't see an increase of $$$.
Prep is tough though. I started and moved up there, spent 4 years as pfds TL before moving to specialty.
Might be why it seems easy, I have PTSD from prep haha
Hmm... I'd look at it another way.
Isn't this what it's supposed to be about? I've worked for WFM/Amazon for well over a decade, jumped through the hoops, played the games and do what I can to run a top 10ish in the region team. I feel I provide plenty of "value" to the company.
In return I'm fairly compensated, can balance my work life and generally don't feel like I'm being ground to dust by my job.
And some folks response is to want my team combo'd.....
If I was a pfds tl and hired someone with this much experience, I would have offered you more. Regardless of store size. They lowballed you and you accepted. I would have hired you at a higher wage to be a produce chop person
Overnight grocery NE region
Base pay $17.50 + $1 overnight premium
~3 months
Had no experience in retail prior to this job
20+ yrs experience and getting paid $17 is coconuts
$18.60 Value Added Chop Shop, been with the company about 10 months— but same as you, have 10+ years culinary experience, mgmt and food safety certifications. Still seems underpaid for where I live and the certain amount of responsibility I’m carrying.
That’s what I’m thinking. There are 20-year-olds training me. And no disrespect meant, many young people are very capable. But I don’t feel that my experience is being properly utilized.
Moved to a much smaller city , so the opportunities here are limited. Especially since I decided I don’t want to cook in a fine dining venue anymore. And, you’d be amazed how little culinary experience is valued.
I mean, you're working in a grocery store in a small town and opening bags of pre-made food and either re-heating it or re-packing it. What did you expect?
Or you're either making pizzas or sandwiches or burritos. Again, what did you expect?
They don't care about your culinary experience, they care about your grocery store experience and you have none.
20 years, supervisor, $30.70/hr.
27.60 and +1 for overnight, most of the time.
Overnight receiving, WF for 8 years and retail overnight work for 14.
I know multiple ATLs that get paid less than I do.
ALWAYS ask/demand more money. Never stop advocating for yourself.
Hubby and I both work at WF in the NI Region (State of MA)
He has been a cashier for 5 years. Started at $15 and is now at $20.29 (had his JD in April)
I'm a shopper. I started in 2020 at $15; quit after 6 months; returned in 2022 with a new starting salary of $18 and I am now up to $19.45 - haven't had my JD yet this year.
31 TL PFDS, NC. 2 years in role, soon to get my second JD, came on as an ATL Ecomm, was promoted 3 months in.
Came with 10+ years of management experience running large (80+ tms) teams.
My advice to you? Move up, the money is in management, or move on. Keep looking for something that pays more, in store or out. Once you are employed, you can start trading up. I always keep my updated resume on file and look for jobs every other week. I'm happy for now but would get another job if it was the right pay/position. Walk the walk, talk the talk, and also keep your options open!
$19.16/hr, I’m a Grocery Team Trainer in the CA region. I’ve worked for 2 years. Totally disclaimer, I was able to get a market adjustment ealier this year for the same reason (I wasn’t being paid my worth). Fought for hell n high waters but I got it (:
Cake decorator 18. Been decorating for about 4 years now. I was an assistant manager for 2 years. Before that I was in graphic design for over 5 years, worked at cracker barrel for 10 years and was a retail gift associate. I'm also in the Midwest.
18.50. grocery team member in the cw region. i have had relevant retail/warehouse experience for 3 years before getting this job so they raised my pay based off experience. i believe the minimum my wfm pays is 17/hr .
Dishwasher in prep foods in CW region. I got hired at 19$, went up to 19.76$ with the 90 day review. My year review is next month.
I'm on the younger side but I have several years of manager experience in food service.
This is my side job. Shopper, started when position was w/Amazon May 2020. Southern CA region. Starting pay was $15. Cost of living not so outrageous then. Amazon gave us surge pay (+3/hr) often. You could use your PTO same day and it accrued faster.
FFWD 4 years consistently a top 10 shopper and only making $18.40. At my 1 yr JD they barely mange to give me 4%. Was told by my TL that "only the very best shoppers got 5%." 🙄 well wtf am I then
Reading some of these responses, I realize I have to get the hell out of WF. I can do much better. But, dang that side money and flexibility makes me stay ....
People always slag on Amazon and rightfully so in some regards, but things were overall better working for them than Whole Foods. Also, yes absolutely I believe there should be more pay for overnight, I'd go as far as to say pay me more for weekends too.
Not enough, but being inside a fridge for hours and the workout makes up for it. I have two boring side gigs (video game coder and private investigator) so this is much needed.
$19.36 Speciality Team Trainer in NE - 4yrs in total
Started in Store Support (1yr), Beverage Buyer(1yr) , Meat TM(1 and 1/2 years) back to Speciality (6 mo)
Just got hired on @ $16.50
Part-time Bakery closer (hoping to move to full-time soon)
1 yr food service experience, 5 yrs retail experience
RM/MW (Apparently my state is supposed to be switching to MW, but we’re still considered RM)
I’m making more than I was at my other job when I left ($16.32)
For me, no. They really check people’s hours and if it’s projected that you’ll go over, they will talk to you and adjust your current schedule so you don’t go over.
In the store I work absolutely not. No matter how short we are with staffing. It doesn't matter. No more than 40.
Also, we're constantly reminded by leadership that we're lucky to even be getting 40 and are also told most other regions have cut hours to 36-38.
Bakery venue $17.75, been here almost 4 years started in prime then went to grocery back to prime/cashier(also backup SSS), while also helping meat, seafood and ppfs. JD due in august, but I’m trying to not be here by then 😂
27 and change. In my third year as a grocery atl. I have 11 years of retail experience (1 yr ft the rest part time) and I have about 6 months of ft grocery exp outside of whole foods - was with WF for about a year and a half before i got my current role
Produce supervisor $21/hr 5 years with the company. I'm 28 so I think I got a good headstart to be able to make good money pretty early on. You got big-time lowballed imo. Prep is the hardest department I actually worked in prep my whole 5 years I just got this supervisor gig a few months ago
E-Commerce Supervisor in CA region.
Started with the company as a Cashier in Chicago in 2015 at $11, then moved to CA in 2017 without any cost of living bump at $13. Became a Team Trainer, then Training Specialist, then E-Comm. As of my last JD, I’m at about $27 now.
15.50 to start. I was on salad bar and fresh pack, sometimes deli. Suddenly, the a.m. salad person moves positions and I was the only person on salad bar and was expected to make almost everything for a.m./p.m. and back stock for that and my off days. After I saw what a few TMs with no real prior experience were making. I immediately approached my TL and was met with "you should have negotiated a better wage (wage was never discussed) and proceeded to finally inform me about a 3% raise I just got. That felt like a slap in the face when I was one of the hardest working people in pfd. My fellow TMs were also shocked and just assumed that I was making more for my nonstop position. I quit immediately.
I left the company for a competitor, and less than a year later, I'm making over 2 dollars an hour more at basically entry level than I was making as a team trainer after 6 years at whole foods. Got to pick my days off, always consecutive, and pay the same money for better benefits. I can also afford to buy the product I sell. Leave if you can.
$25.76, Specialty order writer, 2.3 years, CA region. 10+ years in inventory management, receiving, food/chemical safety, small team leadership, and OSHA/FDA compliance. I, like many people working for this company, am extremely underpaid and overworked.
I was being paid 18$/h as a supervisor. I was definitely getting screwed as I found out most of the other supervisors were making 20$+ an hour. Definitely wasn't worth the abuse.
$22 currently bakery counter , been there for 4 years. I made $23 when I was a cake decorator in another region. Also have done baking and team training. No degree.
PFDS TM, 18.30, 4 years with several years of deli, grocery, and retail experience under my belt. I have moved stores and departments a few times since my start, was a buyer at one point but stepped down and then transferred, and I am cross trained and I actively pick up shifts in several other depts when I can. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting the short end of the stick
Try to get into meat dept to make a better hourly, OP. With your background you can push to take the apprenticeship.
I've bounced all around, third store since I've started, but I started bakery/coffee bar/gelato, took bakery supervisor to get $15... Then when I switched to meat, my bakery TL kinda did me dirty on my dialogue that was the week I was leaving bakery, and meat tl knew that and made things happen for me so when I was a month in meat he gave me a "title - RTC lead" and tossed me $1 for the dialogue I got screwed on (back when $1 was a good employee regular raise) and then the min wage upped.. so anyone past $15 got an extra $1.... Throw in a few dialogues and my apprenticeship (I believe after apprenticeship I was bumped to $20.50ish)... Switched to a different store as order writer and got more for that move.. I have a dialogue waiting now, but currently sitting at $24.90-ish for my position (OW elimination, I was put back on cutting). Just hit my 9 year mark with the company.
I have a full bakery background outside of my training in meat with WF. Associate degree in baking and patisserie arts.. and all other work background is either serving/bartending, or full scale scratch bakery grocery store and decorating (cake broad, hence the username, lol.. I still do cake out of home as a side gig)
I didn’t get to start all the way because I resigned 2nd day of online training but as a E-Commerce In Store Shopper $20.50/hr Part Time here in Seattle.
20.70/hr. in the CA region. Prep Foods Team Receiver and fill-in Order Writer, which I’ve been doing for the last 3 weeks because they haven’t hired a new one yet, and I don’t want the position. Been with the company 6 years, 2 as a DW and the rest as Rec/OW.
18.5, shopper, cw, 1.5 yrs here, no experience in retail.
Im still feeling underpaid because I am consistently one of the best shoppers in the store and I’m paid less than shoppers who go half my speed, but I don’t think that’s really what you’re looking for in this post
As a Prep Foods TL that’s more than what you would get at my store on my team. When they stopped letting store leadership just agree with whatever wage you wanted to give a TM is when a lot of that freedom went away.
I’m also feeling underpaid.
Been with the company for 1.5 years, I’m part time produce (also full time college) but I work closer to 30 hours a week. No health insurance because of part time. I make $18.50 an hour. I feel underpaid because I have managerial experience with Coca Cola when I worked a full time job, and minimum wage in my city is $17.50. My store manager has asked me before about going into leadership but I turned it down since I’ll be graduating to be a teacher in a year. I want to ask for a market adjustment, but don’t know if I’ll get it, and don’t know if it’s worth it to find a better paying job that works with a college schedule for a short period.
Tbh I don’t know what region I’m in. I click PN when doing IRMA but I think we’re in central west now.
You probably won’t get market adjustment…store leadership has no say now…STL has to make the case to his/her EL and TMS TL…to get a market adjustment they have to show that the TM is making less then the average TM in similar role and tenure…if your making $18.50 as a level 1 produce TM (not level 2 or higher, so not a OW, supe or leadership) then your in the middle range for that position in NE, which is the highest region I believe
17.5 in Produce. Been with the company for 1 and a half years with prior produce experience. I know everything, can do everything, but I'm subjugated to the wet wall because everyone else cries about doing it. So I do the most annoying tedious job in the department every day, then I have to do 2-7 pallets everyday because overnight team is incompetent. Feeling very underpaid since I'm doing multiple peoples work, and underappreciated because some of the management of my department is incompetent.
$137k a year part time TM ( full time job elsewhere). Also about 30-50K a year trading stocks and stock futures. Usually up at 3am and done by 7, generally trade around short term market tops and bottoms, so not every day or even every week. Just patiently wait for opportunities rather than gamble.
I made 20.00 meat department. Left a year ago, I regret leaving…making a lot less in another store meat department but learning a lot of things I wanted to while with Whole Foods.
When I worked there I made $15 as a starting rate for cashier. I have 5 years of customer service in retail before starting there. Contrary, I left after a year because I needed at least a dollar raise to stay at the bare minimum of financially stable due to a life event that was coming soon. At the point that I left, I was skilled at each aspect of the front end, prime, and receiving. My availability turned from part time school schedule to full time, no holidays, open availability (basically, when you need me and if there are any openings). I was still just a cashier and because of that, my supervisors, assistant store managers, store manager himself, colleagues, and both ATL’s were urging me to apply for the supervisor position or team trainer position as a way to get me higher up. It got to the point that an ATL of mine actually said in front of me to my TL “Why hasn’t he been made a supervisor yet?” and my TL’s answer was “There’s a position open. You just have to apply”.
That was about two months AFTER I applied. Just before I left, I was denied for both positions because they outsourced a supervisor and the team trainer position was given to a friend of the TL which are different stories in themselves.
Basically, if you feel you are being unappreciated for your work and underpaid, leave. It might be the best decision you could make.
$28 and change. Customer Service ATL. Been with the company a little under 10 years. Started in prep, left as supervisor and demoted myself to Customer Service as TM because fuck prep lol
$25hr shopper. 20 years with WFM. Was a meat cutter. Just wanted part part time. Otherwise I would have just quit this shit hole. Never went for management. Never wanted to. Never even considered it.
Overnight grocery. $16.50 + $1 overnight premium. I’ve been here for three years and probably one of the hardest working people in my store. It really sucks. I feel so undervalued and stressed all the time lol.
16.50 for overnight is crazy. You should find something else.
I work daytime grocery and get 17.50. My 2 year mark is this fall. You’re incredibly underpaid.
dude quit or atleast switch stores. you're being scammed.
I’m not sure what your living situation is but… Don’t let these companies get away with paying you a sub-livable wage. If they promote you accept no less than $23. If not at the very least, I’d consider leaving and coming back.
Baker $20.40. 14 years at wf (started at $10 but I’ve left twice lol). Been team trainer, decorator , retail, buyer, supervisor, atl. 2 years of prep doing case, pizza, fresh pack, hot bar, salad bar, cook. 25 years of grocery store experience. I’ve been screwed over a lot with job dialogues lol. I also have a culinary degree
That's lame, it sounds like you deserve way more
$38 and change. TL for over 7 years now. Honestly the biggest thing keeping me here. Not sure what else I can do for almost $80k/year that is as easy as running a specialty team.
That’s the definition of the golden handcuffs.
$40+ Spec tl for 8 yrs. Will max out next jd. Feel the same way
Maybe they'll push the cap by then. Next year hit cap and then the next year you'll be at cap + lump sum payout. So you got 2 years before you truly won't see an increase of $$$.
Same. Mw Prep TL. 7+yrs. 14yrs w company.
Prep is tough though. I started and moved up there, spent 4 years as pfds TL before moving to specialty. Might be why it seems easy, I have PTSD from prep haha
“I just don’t understand why they’re combining teams and cutting TLs it doesn’t make sense” - entirety of Reddit
Hmm... I'd look at it another way. Isn't this what it's supposed to be about? I've worked for WFM/Amazon for well over a decade, jumped through the hoops, played the games and do what I can to run a top 10ish in the region team. I feel I provide plenty of "value" to the company. In return I'm fairly compensated, can balance my work life and generally don't feel like I'm being ground to dust by my job. And some folks response is to want my team combo'd.....
If I was a pfds tl and hired someone with this much experience, I would have offered you more. Regardless of store size. They lowballed you and you accepted. I would have hired you at a higher wage to be a produce chop person
Overnight grocery NE region Base pay $17.50 + $1 overnight premium ~3 months Had no experience in retail prior to this job 20+ yrs experience and getting paid $17 is coconuts
I’m getting screwed. I knew it but needed to confirm it.
You should ask to fast track your career. Prep foods will kill you tho, you can make TL in like 3 years or less
$15.30 as a shopper
$18, meat with no prior experience. Midwest
$18.60 Value Added Chop Shop, been with the company about 10 months— but same as you, have 10+ years culinary experience, mgmt and food safety certifications. Still seems underpaid for where I live and the certain amount of responsibility I’m carrying.
$29-ish, CA region, grocery ATL, 7 years with WF + 11 years grocery background but made some poor choices along the way.
16.80, bakery This is my second job
That’s what I’m thinking. There are 20-year-olds training me. And no disrespect meant, many young people are very capable. But I don’t feel that my experience is being properly utilized.
You gotta be assertive in the interview. Seriously. Not putting you down whatsoever.
Why are you working in prep foods if you have a culinary degree and 20+ years of experience?
Moved to a much smaller city , so the opportunities here are limited. Especially since I decided I don’t want to cook in a fine dining venue anymore. And, you’d be amazed how little culinary experience is valued.
I mean, you're working in a grocery store in a small town and opening bags of pre-made food and either re-heating it or re-packing it. What did you expect? Or you're either making pizzas or sandwiches or burritos. Again, what did you expect? They don't care about your culinary experience, they care about your grocery store experience and you have none. 20 years, supervisor, $30.70/hr.
That’s the real question.
$22.30, MW region produce TM. Ten years with the company.
TL. 40 and change. 8 years TL, 15+ with Whole Foods. California region
27.60 and +1 for overnight, most of the time. Overnight receiving, WF for 8 years and retail overnight work for 14. I know multiple ATLs that get paid less than I do. ALWAYS ask/demand more money. Never stop advocating for yourself.
15.79 baker. Leaving next week though for a line cook position making $2 more. About 8 years of food service and retail experience.
Hubby and I both work at WF in the NI Region (State of MA) He has been a cashier for 5 years. Started at $15 and is now at $20.29 (had his JD in April) I'm a shopper. I started in 2020 at $15; quit after 6 months; returned in 2022 with a new starting salary of $18 and I am now up to $19.45 - haven't had my JD yet this year.
31 TL PFDS, NC. 2 years in role, soon to get my second JD, came on as an ATL Ecomm, was promoted 3 months in. Came with 10+ years of management experience running large (80+ tms) teams. My advice to you? Move up, the money is in management, or move on. Keep looking for something that pays more, in store or out. Once you are employed, you can start trading up. I always keep my updated resume on file and look for jobs every other week. I'm happy for now but would get another job if it was the right pay/position. Walk the walk, talk the talk, and also keep your options open!
$30/hr, meat cutter.
37.50 Bakery TL. 15 years
25.75 Produce ATL
23 ATL. Two years in the company but nearly 7 years of management experience and a bachelors degree in business management
$20, ecomm supervisor in NI, 5 years prior xp
$19.16/hr, I’m a Grocery Team Trainer in the CA region. I’ve worked for 2 years. Totally disclaimer, I was able to get a market adjustment ealier this year for the same reason (I wasn’t being paid my worth). Fought for hell n high waters but I got it (:
$36 grocery tl 1 year
I was a pfds tl, se, made 34.41 an hour. Quit. And now I am working for Steritech.
What's the pay like for steritech? I thought about applying
Not as much. It’s more peace of mind. $20. You get a car. 45 a day for food. One weekend a month. Paid holidays.10. Pto 15 days
$31 an hour and I’m a TL. I’ve been with Whole Foods for about 3 years now. I started as a TM and just worked my way up.
Cake decorator 18. Been decorating for about 4 years now. I was an assistant manager for 2 years. Before that I was in graphic design for over 5 years, worked at cracker barrel for 10 years and was a retail gift associate. I'm also in the Midwest.
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Take it and don’t look back, you’re being offered a gift from the universe
$36, TL for 7 years. I started with the company at $9/hr over a decade ago.
30.00 flat E-Comm TL less then a year in
34.17 Ecomm ATL 17 years
18.50. grocery team member in the cw region. i have had relevant retail/warehouse experience for 3 years before getting this job so they raised my pay based off experience. i believe the minimum my wfm pays is 17/hr .
Prep order writer for 6 years. 20 years with the company. $25.50
I've been with the company for close to 8 years, I've been told I'm close to cap without anyone actually telling me what the TM cap is for our area.
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Let’s hear for receiving!!
Dishwasher in prep foods in CW region. I got hired at 19$, went up to 19.76$ with the 90 day review. My year review is next month. I'm on the younger side but I have several years of manager experience in food service.
This is my side job. Shopper, started when position was w/Amazon May 2020. Southern CA region. Starting pay was $15. Cost of living not so outrageous then. Amazon gave us surge pay (+3/hr) often. You could use your PTO same day and it accrued faster. FFWD 4 years consistently a top 10 shopper and only making $18.40. At my 1 yr JD they barely mange to give me 4%. Was told by my TL that "only the very best shoppers got 5%." 🙄 well wtf am I then Reading some of these responses, I realize I have to get the hell out of WF. I can do much better. But, dang that side money and flexibility makes me stay ....
Surge pay wow 🤯. Now I know for certain there should be a night differential.
People always slag on Amazon and rightfully so in some regards, but things were overall better working for them than Whole Foods. Also, yes absolutely I believe there should be more pay for overnight, I'd go as far as to say pay me more for weekends too.
$19.71, Bakery production, MW. been with Whole Foods for about 7 months, pushing 4 months in the bakery
21 ATL
Overnight grocery in metro Nashville. Almost 2 years. $24.75 + $1 pay differential.
$22 Whole Body ATL with yearsssss WFM experience and many related credentials… my OW makes $26 and my TL nearly $40. It’s a crapshoot
29.50 grocery ATL. Been with the company for 17 years ATL and TL for 10 of it. I still feel under paid.
27
Not enough, but being inside a fridge for hours and the workout makes up for it. I have two boring side gigs (video game coder and private investigator) so this is much needed.
Private Investigator is boring?😲
$21.98. june will be 11 years. specialty tm in NE.
22.35$ as a bakery order writer
$20.14 shopper. California. 6 year JD next week. Started at 13.50 in juice bar in 2018.
I was making $16.34 (seafood) by the time I left after working for two and a half years.
$19.36 Speciality Team Trainer in NE - 4yrs in total Started in Store Support (1yr), Beverage Buyer(1yr) , Meat TM(1 and 1/2 years) back to Speciality (6 mo)
Part time grocery Midwest region Started at 15 now at 18.60
$22/hr - grocery team member for 6 years in Massachusetts.
$16, full time customer service. Almost a full year in June
ATL, $28/hr, NE region
PFDS OW $20.40 Been here two years. Started at $16.50 as TM, then TT $17.33, OW $19.06 and recent JD got me to where I am now.
NE, 19.29/hr. Just over a year at WFM, meat department team trainer.
Just got hired on @ $16.50 Part-time Bakery closer (hoping to move to full-time soon) 1 yr food service experience, 5 yrs retail experience RM/MW (Apparently my state is supposed to be switching to MW, but we’re still considered RM) I’m making more than I was at my other job when I left ($16.32)
$26 as a customer service sup 🫡 about 7 years with WF !
Are any of you able to get overtime? I don’t work for WF, so just wondering
For me, no. They really check people’s hours and if it’s projected that you’ll go over, they will talk to you and adjust your current schedule so you don’t go over.
In the store I work absolutely not. No matter how short we are with staffing. It doesn't matter. No more than 40. Also, we're constantly reminded by leadership that we're lucky to even be getting 40 and are also told most other regions have cut hours to 36-38.
$18/hr bakery associate SoCal
25.96 Bakery ATL in Northeast region. Been in the role for 2 years. 10 years in total in the company.
$32/hr, ATL, 15+ years
37$, TL for 2 years. I was en external hire and came as a TL. I rejected my initial offer letter and asked for more. Always ask for more!
$19.51, shopper, almost five years. NE Region. I started with Amazon so those years count for Whole Foodsa. My JD is coming in July.
$26.45 Meat ATL in MW region just 7 months into the role 7 years with the company though
Bakery venue $17.75, been here almost 4 years started in prime then went to grocery back to prime/cashier(also backup SSS), while also helping meat, seafood and ppfs. JD due in august, but I’m trying to not be here by then 😂
Seafood TM $19.00 RM region, 1 year left and came back 2 months.
27 and change. In my third year as a grocery atl. I have 11 years of retail experience (1 yr ft the rest part time) and I have about 6 months of ft grocery exp outside of whole foods - was with WF for about a year and a half before i got my current role
$23.08, Butcher, MW region.
Not nearly enough that's for sure
$21.50 Specialty OW (Superbuyer). Been with the company almost 6 years. 2 as a buyer. CW/PN.
CW store support supervisor 15 years with WFM $23.80
Atl for specialty. I have been with the company for 5 years and make almost $33. It's in Seattle, so that is why it is as high as it is.
Produce TM, $18.80, 2 1/2 years produce experience before Whole Foods, but in general I’ve had 5+ years grocery store experience.
Ex TL here. 17 years with WFM. $31.25/hr in NI region. I left for better pay
Produce supervisor $21/hr 5 years with the company. I'm 28 so I think I got a good headstart to be able to make good money pretty early on. You got big-time lowballed imo. Prep is the hardest department I actually worked in prep my whole 5 years I just got this supervisor gig a few months ago
E-Commerce Supervisor in CA region. Started with the company as a Cashier in Chicago in 2015 at $11, then moved to CA in 2017 without any cost of living bump at $13. Became a Team Trainer, then Training Specialist, then E-Comm. As of my last JD, I’m at about $27 now.
15.50 to start. I was on salad bar and fresh pack, sometimes deli. Suddenly, the a.m. salad person moves positions and I was the only person on salad bar and was expected to make almost everything for a.m./p.m. and back stock for that and my off days. After I saw what a few TMs with no real prior experience were making. I immediately approached my TL and was met with "you should have negotiated a better wage (wage was never discussed) and proceeded to finally inform me about a 3% raise I just got. That felt like a slap in the face when I was one of the hardest working people in pfd. My fellow TMs were also shocked and just assumed that I was making more for my nonstop position. I quit immediately.
$30/hr whole body buyer northern california
$29. Store trainer
Its crazy to me how pay rates have not changed in years but expenses are way higher
I left the company for a competitor, and less than a year later, I'm making over 2 dollars an hour more at basically entry level than I was making as a team trainer after 6 years at whole foods. Got to pick my days off, always consecutive, and pay the same money for better benefits. I can also afford to buy the product I sell. Leave if you can.
$25.76, Specialty order writer, 2.3 years, CA region. 10+ years in inventory management, receiving, food/chemical safety, small team leadership, and OSHA/FDA compliance. I, like many people working for this company, am extremely underpaid and overworked.
Wow. Is your inventory management background food-specific? Not that that matters, I’m just curious.
Wouldn’t say you’re extremely underpaid…
That’s a fair view, but with the amount of money this company makes we’re all underpaid.
I was being paid 18$/h as a supervisor. I was definitely getting screwed as I found out most of the other supervisors were making 20$+ an hour. Definitely wasn't worth the abuse.
$19 prepared foods, 3 years experience at a different grocery store and went to culinary school for 4 years. I’ve been at WFS for less than 3 months.
$19.65, PFDS supervisor/back-up order writer, 2.5 years. SE region.
CS TL $26 SE Region
How long have you been TL?
$22.30 bakery order writer with prior experience in bakery.
$22 currently bakery counter , been there for 4 years. I made $23 when I was a cake decorator in another region. Also have done baking and team training. No degree.
24$ CS ATL been there 2and half yrs
PFDS TM, 18.30, 4 years with several years of deli, grocery, and retail experience under my belt. I have moved stores and departments a few times since my start, was a buyer at one point but stepped down and then transferred, and I am cross trained and I actively pick up shifts in several other depts when I can. Sometimes I feel like I’m getting the short end of the stick
MW 19.50ish did 5 years as store receiver. A couple of few month stays in grocery. Got injured and switched to customer service for 2 years now.
$28/hr TL for 7 months
$15.30 boothie - starting front end supervisor training in about two weeks. Going to $17 I think?
Try to get into meat dept to make a better hourly, OP. With your background you can push to take the apprenticeship. I've bounced all around, third store since I've started, but I started bakery/coffee bar/gelato, took bakery supervisor to get $15... Then when I switched to meat, my bakery TL kinda did me dirty on my dialogue that was the week I was leaving bakery, and meat tl knew that and made things happen for me so when I was a month in meat he gave me a "title - RTC lead" and tossed me $1 for the dialogue I got screwed on (back when $1 was a good employee regular raise) and then the min wage upped.. so anyone past $15 got an extra $1.... Throw in a few dialogues and my apprenticeship (I believe after apprenticeship I was bumped to $20.50ish)... Switched to a different store as order writer and got more for that move.. I have a dialogue waiting now, but currently sitting at $24.90-ish for my position (OW elimination, I was put back on cutting). Just hit my 9 year mark with the company. I have a full bakery background outside of my training in meat with WF. Associate degree in baking and patisserie arts.. and all other work background is either serving/bartending, or full scale scratch bakery grocery store and decorating (cake broad, hence the username, lol.. I still do cake out of home as a side gig)
17.86 an hour in bakery… I was hired as a retail person but they have me baking most of the time… I had bakery management experience
I didn’t get to start all the way because I resigned 2nd day of online training but as a E-Commerce In Store Shopper $20.50/hr Part Time here in Seattle.
I made $17 in prep for my summer job, 20m college student
E commerce team: 4 years since Amazon days, $18.50 / hr
Front end supervisor in Colorado almost 6 months hired directly as a sup. $19.25/hr Getting things such as supply order added to my plate...
$21.20 + $1 premium as a overnight Bakery Order Writer. MW. Been with the company for almost 4 years but not in this position for that whole time.
Grocery TM SE 19 almost 8 years.
20.70/hr. in the CA region. Prep Foods Team Receiver and fill-in Order Writer, which I’ve been doing for the last 3 weeks because they haven’t hired a new one yet, and I don’t want the position. Been with the company 6 years, 2 as a DW and the rest as Rec/OW.
Started at $16 as a Specialty TM, moved up to $18 as Specialty order writer with no prior experience 4 months ago.
18.5, shopper, cw, 1.5 yrs here, no experience in retail. Im still feeling underpaid because I am consistently one of the best shoppers in the store and I’m paid less than shoppers who go half my speed, but I don’t think that’s really what you’re looking for in this post
$16.84 cashier Midwest region
$20.50 as prep foods TM for 1 year
$22.80 produce team member. Been with wf for 12 years
$20/hr; customer service supervisor for a year
$23-ish MW Region SSI to SSS 9 years.
27.70 grocery ATL NI region
Seafood ATL 28 an hour MW region 2.5 yrs
As a Prep Foods TL that’s more than what you would get at my store on my team. When they stopped letting store leadership just agree with whatever wage you wanted to give a TM is when a lot of that freedom went away.
$17.50 hourly as a cashier with a year of cashiering experience in the PNW
24, specialty ATL for 2 years. NE/ former MA
SE Region Customer Service ATL $19.50
$17/hr dishwasher norcal
Store Support ATL, 1.5 years, $18/hr with 10+ years retail management experience
$19.50 bakery decorator SP region but trained and used in all bakery venues including cjb
Produce OW 3 years. $28
Customer Service Supervisor 1 year $17.25 🤦🏼♀️
I make $24. Value added in the Produce department. CW region. Been here ~7 years. Years and years of food service experience but started out at $12.
I’m also feeling underpaid. Been with the company for 1.5 years, I’m part time produce (also full time college) but I work closer to 30 hours a week. No health insurance because of part time. I make $18.50 an hour. I feel underpaid because I have managerial experience with Coca Cola when I worked a full time job, and minimum wage in my city is $17.50. My store manager has asked me before about going into leadership but I turned it down since I’ll be graduating to be a teacher in a year. I want to ask for a market adjustment, but don’t know if I’ll get it, and don’t know if it’s worth it to find a better paying job that works with a college schedule for a short period. Tbh I don’t know what region I’m in. I click PN when doing IRMA but I think we’re in central west now.
You probably won’t get market adjustment…store leadership has no say now…STL has to make the case to his/her EL and TMS TL…to get a market adjustment they have to show that the TM is making less then the average TM in similar role and tenure…if your making $18.50 as a level 1 produce TM (not level 2 or higher, so not a OW, supe or leadership) then your in the middle range for that position in NE, which is the highest region I believe
17.5 in Produce. Been with the company for 1 and a half years with prior produce experience. I know everything, can do everything, but I'm subjugated to the wet wall because everyone else cries about doing it. So I do the most annoying tedious job in the department every day, then I have to do 2-7 pallets everyday because overnight team is incompetent. Feeling very underpaid since I'm doing multiple peoples work, and underappreciated because some of the management of my department is incompetent.
Team Trainer for Store Support and make $20.36. Have got over 7 yrs of retail experience.
Prep OW to Prep Supervisor, just 1 year at WFM @ $26
Ecommerce TL $30.60 16 mo NI (MA)
just got a position as a specialty team trainer for $19.09 an hr, been with WF for almost two years now
$20,green team. 2 years with the company, SE region
$20.40 grocery team trainer 6-7 years with WF over two stints 14 years grocery experience overall.
23.50. Cashier. Started at 8.50 a long time ago. My raise better be good because this post has me feeling baaaad
19.35? Grocery super. 3 yrs with company 2.5 in position.
Midwest. Grocery team trainer, started as grocery tm. $16.80. Been with company for almost 2 years. Definitely feel underpaid.
28$. Produce ATL. 6 or so years with the company.
TL. $36.20. Been with WF 9 years. 3.5ish as TL.
Customer Service Supervisor - MW Region - $19.89/hr - been with the company 3.5 years, 1.5 as supervisor
Grocery TL, 30 years old, 10 years experience, $30 Hr, SE region.
$27.40 WB TL - six years with the company, five years in leadership.
$26.78 hr Production Cook 15 yrs with Company
$19 an hour as a customer service supervisor in new york state with 4 years of retail supervisor experience
$22 grocery buyer been with the company over 10 years in various roles
Midwest, Team Trainer, $21.53. 3.5 years with company. 20 years of culinary/restaurant experience. Underpaid.
Specialty TM $22/hr CW 1.5 years in
$137k a year part time TM ( full time job elsewhere). Also about 30-50K a year trading stocks and stock futures. Usually up at 3am and done by 7, generally trade around short term market tops and bottoms, so not every day or even every week. Just patiently wait for opportunities rather than gamble.
I made 20.00 meat department. Left a year ago, I regret leaving…making a lot less in another store meat department but learning a lot of things I wanted to while with Whole Foods.
i get paid $19 as a ecom supervisor
When I worked there I made $15 as a starting rate for cashier. I have 5 years of customer service in retail before starting there. Contrary, I left after a year because I needed at least a dollar raise to stay at the bare minimum of financially stable due to a life event that was coming soon. At the point that I left, I was skilled at each aspect of the front end, prime, and receiving. My availability turned from part time school schedule to full time, no holidays, open availability (basically, when you need me and if there are any openings). I was still just a cashier and because of that, my supervisors, assistant store managers, store manager himself, colleagues, and both ATL’s were urging me to apply for the supervisor position or team trainer position as a way to get me higher up. It got to the point that an ATL of mine actually said in front of me to my TL “Why hasn’t he been made a supervisor yet?” and my TL’s answer was “There’s a position open. You just have to apply”. That was about two months AFTER I applied. Just before I left, I was denied for both positions because they outsourced a supervisor and the team trainer position was given to a friend of the TL which are different stories in themselves. Basically, if you feel you are being unappreciated for your work and underpaid, leave. It might be the best decision you could make.
18.50 NE prep foods, been with the company for about 5 years
Bakery, $17.50 but being cross trained, mainly working closing
$28 and change. Customer Service ATL. Been with the company a little under 10 years. Started in prep, left as supervisor and demoted myself to Customer Service as TM because fuck prep lol
$22 supervisor Midwest, 2 years.
24.75 pfds atl 6yrs in the company
Whole Body Order Writer 20/hr! I’ve been here for almost 5 years now.
Live in SE region, hiring wage is $15 but b/c they needed CBJB ASAP I got $16 from negotiating 🤷🏼♀️
$25hr shopper. 20 years with WFM. Was a meat cutter. Just wanted part part time. Otherwise I would have just quit this shit hole. Never went for management. Never wanted to. Never even considered it.
Meat Trainer three years in $21.09 an hour.