Walmart Needs 900 Drivers, Discusses Doubling Pay

Walmart wants to beef up its shipping department, and it’s willing to pay top dollar to do so.

The retailer wants to hire 900 truckers to help move merchandise to stores. To make the job enticing, it’s adjusting some of its payment structures to bring the average trucker salary to $87,500. That’s significantly more than the national average for truck drivers, which, according to the American Trucking Associations, currently stands at $53,000.

As an added incentive, Walmart—which operates its own private fleet of trucks—is offering referral bonuses of up to $1,500. It also has begun paying drivers an extra one cent per mile and an extra $1 each time they deliver a trailer.

Source: Fortune