Apple Boosts Retail Worker Pay to Cope With Tighter Labor Market
- Company gives raises to longtime salespeople and technicians
- Move comes after company issues new sick time, vacation perks
An Apple store in Walnut Creek, California.
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Apple Inc. is bumping the pay of many U.S. retail employees in the face of a tightening tightening labor market, inflation woes and complaints from some staffers about working conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The iPhone maker announced the pay increases this week during store briefings and individual meetings with employees, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The increases are catered at least in part to employees who have worked at the company prior to the pandemic’s start in 2020 and are designed to better align veteran staff with more recent hires.