Walmart is increasing the starting salary for in-house truck drivers from an average starting salary of $87,000 up to $110,000 per year and no less than $95,000.
Walmart will focus more on its in-house delivery service to reduce its reliance on third-party deliveries.
A Walmart spokesman said the company has also given its current drivers raises. The company employs around 12,000 truck drivers, of whom Walmart has hired 7,000 in the past two years.
Walmart will also give several lower-paid employees a chance to get into the trucks with a newly launched in-house training program. In just 12 weeks, a Walmart cashier can get in the truck and make six figures.
For context, Walmart drivers make more than the average college graduate with a four-year degree. College graduates start with an average salary of $55,260. Walmart truckers make twice as much without debt and wasted hours in the classroom with a mad professor.
The company sells college as a must. It’s a rush. For some students, such as those enrolling in STEM programs, the college is ideal. Then there are the others who spend $100,000 on tuition for a useless degree and make far less than truckers, plumbers, and welders.
I spoke to Tucker Carlson about this topic last year. Here’s what he said:
There’s this idea that college improves your worth. Where’s the evidence? I’m sure hard science will do. If you are an engineer or studying in a medical school, you will learn discrete information, actual facts that you can use and that you need to know in order to join the profession you want to join. But for kids like me who choose to pursue a liberal arts education, I think it detracts from you.
I pushed all four of my kids out of college, all four. Think about it. My fourth is going to college now. I said to all four of them, “Please don’t do that.” I told them, “I’m going to take the money we’re going to spend on college — we’ve been blessed with it, we’ve saved money for them — and come up with something more interesting.” .” But to my shame, everyone left. And they are independent, smart and freethinkers. But the pressure, the social pressure to conform and take this path – which is so clearly a dead end for so many kids – scares me.
I don’t even include drug addiction, alcoholism and chlamydia. You know what I mean? There are all the other costs of the college before the financial costs. There’s the spiritual cost. are you safer Are you more curious? are you braver Are you better educated than when you entered the country? And for most people, of course, the answer is no. So why are we doing this?
I think everyone should opt out except people with very specific goals. I don’t believe in the system at all. Again, just to reiterate how much I don’t believe it: my own children, the most important thing in my life, I’ve advised them all to skip it. That’s how I feel.
Unlike tech, media, or education jobs, blue collar companies don’t care about your political leanings. You can support Donald Trump and oppose the sexual indoctrination of young children and still drive a truck.
Trucking companies do not promote or demote you because of the color of your skin. These jobs still exist.
In addition, workers are in demand. Everywhere companies are looking for truckers, construction workers and furnace installers.
“We currently have 7.3 million open positions, most of which do not require a four-year degree,” Mike Rowe told Fox Business. “They require training, they require skill, and they require a willingness to master a craft that is in demand.”
The country lacks skilled workers. When you learn a trade, you immediately have options. With a strong Twitter following, you’ll find success faster than a Gender Studies major.
Truck driver jobs are not going away. Rather, they will increase as Americans rely more on online shopping.
Truckers proved their worth during the Freedom Convoy in Canada earlier this year. It is estimated that the week-long blockade along the Ambassador Bridge – which connects Detroit to Windsor, Ontario – could ultimately cost the US and Canadian economies $1 billion. No wonder our rulers fear the truckers.
Truck work counts. All transport matters. That includes the now well-paid, honking Walmart drivers.