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The employee shortage across the United States continues despite millions of job openings as a result of the Covid pandemic – 19. For this reason, there are companies that seek to attack this trend with better salary offers, an example of this is McDonald’s that will pay up to $ 21 dollars per hour to your employees .
For months the fast food company reported that it would increase the salary of its workers to around $ 15 dollars an hour, but the situation has not improved for Americans to feel comfortable to return to the work centers, especially restaurants.
McDonald’s reported that it would increase wages of more than 36, 000 hourly workers in owned restaurants, with an average of 10% over the next few months, it is important to note that the fast food chain has around 12, 900 restaurants nationwide owned, the other branches are franchises.
Meanwhile, other restaurants like Chipotle are looking for workers with an average salary of $ 15 dollars per hour and even, managers could earn up to $ 100, 000 dollars per year . However, the new wages would be $ 11 starting dollars up to the $ 15 dollars, with bonuses from $ 100 dollars and $ 750 dollars for apprentices and general managers.
This phenomenon of increases began a few months ago to boost hiring at the national level, many companies in the sector decided that to achieve their objectives they should increase wages minimum per federal hour in force in the country that represents $ 7. 25 dollars.
At this time, the United States has exceeded the 10 million in number of job vacancies to be filled . This mismatch is causing companies to increase their salaries with greater intensity, including the most basic positions such as cashiers, delivery men or waiters.
According to official data from the Department of Labor, wages in recent months have increased by 4% annually, this due to the reinstatement of several workers who were laid off during the pandemic. Most of the workers are not willing to return to their jobs with a similar salary prior to the pandemic .
According to the National Federation of Independent Business, a 40% of employers who answered a survey in February, revealed that they had not found workers to carry out new jobs in this new stage of the pandemic.
Faced with this situation, large companies such as McDonald’s, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Applebee’s and KFC or Amazon have taken completely new and unexpected strategies by offering juicy salaries to fill the vacancies of waiters, delivery men and managers.
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