Walmart Inc. WMT -0.42% store managers in the U.S. earn an average of $175,000 a year while full-time hourly workers make an average of $14.26 an hour, the retail giant disclosed Wednesday.
The figures, included in a social responsibility report, are part of Walmart’s long-running efforts to rebut criticism of its worker pay and bolster its competitive position in an increasingly tight labor market.
The pressure on Walmart has intensified as competitors including Amazon.com Inc. and Costco Wholesale Corp. have raised their minimum wage to at least $15 an hour.
Last year, Walmart expanded parental leave benefits for all company employees. Its executives often publicly cite added worker training that is intended to help low-level employees more easily advance to higher-paying management jobs.
Store managers, the highest position inside a Walmart store, have a wide range of duties. In the largest supercenters they can manage over 300 workers and oversee more than $100 million in annual sales.
The vast majority of Walmart’s 1.5 million U.S. workers are hourly employees. And over half of hourly store workers are considered full-time employees, the company said in the report.
Along with benefit increases, Walmart has raised wages in recent years.
In 2015, Walmart set a minimum wage for hourly workers at $9. Wages have climbed more than 50% over the past three years and the minimum starting wage is now $11, Walmart said.
Walmart’s average hourly wage for full-time store workers last April was $14.08, said a spokesman, about 18 cents lower than it is today.
Walmart executives have told investors they are working to keep wages competitive in a tight labor market by raising wages in certain regions, individual stores and for particular jobs, as needed.
Some 55% of Walmart’s workers, both at stores and in corporate jobs, are female, while 44% are people of color, the report said.
Write to Sarah Nassauer at sarah.nassauer@wsj.com
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