The changes come as more retailers and restaurant chains have moved to a $15 an hour minimum rate.
Target announced Monday that it is raising its starting wage for workers in some positions to up to $24.
Target, which employs more than 350,000 workers and has over 1,900 US stores, said the hike in some starting wages is part of its plan to spend an additional $300 million on its workforce. That investment also includes expanding access to healthcare benefits for hourly workers, beginning in April. Amazon raised its starting wage to $15 in 2018, while Best Buy bumped up its minimum to $15 in 2020. Walmart, the largest US retailer, said in September that its workers who handle the front end of the store, food and general merchandise units will get at least a dollar an hour increase to $12. The pay raise would cover 565,000 Walmart workers.
In fact, vaccine specialists topped the list of 25 fastest-growing jobs in LinkedIn’s just-released Jobs on the Rise report. “Medical sales reps, pharmacists and nurses are transitioning to this role,” the report says. He adds that 40% of hiring decision makers across a variety of industries say technical skills have been increasingly difficult to find in potential candidates since the pandemic began, even though those skills are the most sought after.
That is something to keep in mind when exploring these jobs, which ranked No. 2 through No. 10 in LinkedIn’s Jobs on the Rise list: