made. they make about $12.83 an hour, more than the retail average. if that were a full-time job, it would still be only $26,000 a year. that s what the headlines have been. walmart saying, look we promote people, and we re doing 30,000 promotion, right now. i wonder if he talked about how much of a promotion in terms of wage promotions. and also this issue, this fight that walmart has been in the middle of, because it s the biggest single employee in this country, employing 1.4 million people here of a living wage, quote/unquote, living wage versus minimum wage or pay a lot of the workers there are getting. walmart pays more than the minimum wage, more than $12 an hour even. but there are a lot of people who say that s simply, that s not enough. you can t live in this country. you can t send a kid to college on some of these jobs. quite frankly, these are not the kind jobs that are earning the salaries we had a generation ago when people made much more than that working in factori