Let’s a take a look at how much the CEO makes:
Dollar General has enjoyed steady profits despite the pandemic, and CEO Todd Vasos was paid $1.7 million in 2021, a 37 percent pay bump that amounts to 986 times more than the median wage of one of the company’s 163,000 workers in the more than 18,000 stores across the United States.
And now let’s take a look at the hourly rate for it’s employees.
A recent report from the Economic Policy Institute finds that 92 percent of Dollar General employees make less than $15 an hour. Twenty-two percent make less than $10 an hour[…].
Could you live off less than $10 an hour with limited to no benefits? And likely not getting 40 hours a week? I know I couldn’t!
–Jacobin, by Alex N. Press, https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/dollar-general-workers-shareholder-rally-pay-safety