If you dream of becoming a real estate investor but work at Walmart, you could well be on your way to realizing your dream much sooner than you think. This comes with one important caveat: You’d need to manage a Walmart store to enjoy the financial benefits that could set you up with the cash needed to invest.
Walmart U.S. announced last week that it would be giving its store managers stock grants in the company. The announcement comes after Walmart also made the decision to raise managers’ salaries and introduce a new bonus structure that will allow store managers to earn up to 200% of their salary in annual bonuses.
How Much Will Walmart Managers Earn?
The company announced that starting from its 2024 fiscal year, which begins in February, the average store manager’s salary will go up from $117,000 to $128,000. The new salary range will be between $90,000 and $170,000, which raises the starting salary substantially from the previous $65,000 benchmark. In addition, Walmart will do a 3-for-1 stock split at the end of February—something it hasn’t done since 1999.
Where things get truly lucrative is in the new bonus structure and the latest decision to give employees in some categories company stock grants. Under the new policy, managers can earn up to $404,000 per year in total if they get the performance-based bonus on top of their salary.
The stock grants of up to $20,000 will be issued to Walmart managers, with a vested period of three years. The total amount of the stock grant will depend on the size of the store the employee is managing.
The full $20,000 will be given to Supercenter managers. Supercenters are the biggest Walmart stores, about 180,000 square feet in size, and require managers to oversee hundreds of employees. Managers of Neighborhood Market stores and Division 1 stores, which are smaller, will get $15,000 in stock grants. Hometown store leaders will get $10,000 in stock grants.
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