Costco Raises Salaries for Hourly Employees

Many of Costco Wholesale's employees in the U.S. are getting a raise. The retailer raised by $1 the pay of its top-of-scale employees, with clerks now set to make to $31.90 per hour and assistants' to $30.20 starting in March, according to a memo sent to employees this week. Those employees will receive an additional $1-per-hour raise in each of the following two years. Additional compensation changes include increasing the pay for bottom-of-scale by 50 cents an hour, raising the supervisor premium to $2 from $1.50, and giving new employees...