Walmart said it is boosting starting pay for its 12,000 long-haul truck drivers who deliver merchandise to its stores and Sam's Clubs locations amid a U.S. shortage of drivers that threatens to prolong supply chain snarls and merchandise shortages.
A truck pulls into a truck stop providing essential food and hygiene services to truckers during the coronavirus disease outbreak in Las Vegas, New Mexico, U.S. March 23, 2020. Picture taken March 23, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Haysaid it is boosting starting pay for its 12,000 long-haul truck drivers who deliver merchandise to its stores and Sam's Clubs locations amid a U.S. shortage of drivers that threatens to prolong supply chain snarls and merchandise shortages.
That far exceeds 2020's median pay of $47,130 for American big-rig drivers, whose "real" earnings have lagged inflation and effectively remain at about 70% of what they were in the 1970s, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About 1.9 million big-rig drivers ply the nation's roads, according to the bureau.
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