Ximena Hoffmann· VP, Total Rewards, Meridian Health Systems
Posted in Minneapolis Chapter ·
I look after pay for about 180 stores across the Upper Midwest, and our starting rate in the Twin Cities metro is 16.50 dollars an hour. Store managers tell me that no longer fills weekend shifts, and applicants per opening are down by roughly a quarter on last year.
The published surveys lag by six to nine months, which is no use in this market. What I am after is what people are posting right now for entry-level store and fulfilment roles, in the metro and in greater Minnesota. I will share ours in return, including shift differentials.
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Benefits Manager, Pinehurst Foods
Grocery, 40 stores. Metro start is 17.25 for front end, 18.50 for overnight stocking, and 15.75 outstate. We moved in July after losing people to a distribution centre that opened in the south metro at 21 dollars.
I do not think stores can match warehouse rates, so we competed on schedule stability instead: shifts posted three weeks out.
Benefits Manager, Pinehurst Foods
We are at 16.00 and holding, which probably tells you we are behind. What we changed was the progression: 50 cents at 90 days and another 50 at one year, automatic. Ninety-day turnover dropped from 48 to 39 percent. The starting rate gets them in the door, but the early steps seem to be what keeps them.
Benefits Manager, Pinehurst Foods
Do check the city minimum wage schedules for Minneapolis and St Paul before you set a metro rate, since as I understand it they are adjusted each year and differ from the state figure. We set one metro rate comfortably above both to avoid separate rates for stores a few miles apart. Your counsel will know the current numbers better than I do.
VP, Total Rewards, Orchard & Vine
Fulfilment roles are a different market from store roles in my experience, and pricing them together was our mistake. Our fulfilment centre in the north metro starts at 19.75 with a 2 dollar night differential, and we still compete with parcel carriers every peak season. Are you seeing the applicant drop in both, or mainly in stores?
