Mondo Times Money Poll Archive
This poll ran from July 9 to 15, 2007.
| Mondo Stars Poll Results |
| "Wal-Mart pays competitive wages." True    370/29%False 903/71% |
| Votes: 1273 |
Leslie Dach, Wal-Mart's executive vice president of corporate affairs, as quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg in the article "Selling Wal-Mart: Can the company co-opt liberals?" in the April 2, 2007 issue of The New Yorker magazine.
Before joining Wal-Mart, Dach was an executive at Edelman Public Relations, and has been a senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of Democrats Michael Dukakis and Al Gore. He also worked for the National Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund.
According to the company, full-time hourly workers make an average of $10.51 an hour at Wal-Mart. However, the group Wake Up Wal-Mart believes that after part-time workers are factored in, the true average is less than $9.00 an hour. In contrast, Costco pays an average wage of $17.46 an hour.
In 2006, Wal-Mart had revenues of over $315 billion, and profits of about $11 billion.
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