Target Stores Raising Minimum Wage For All Workers

Bea Karnes
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HAYWARD, CA —Target stores announced Thursday that the company is permanently raising its starting wage to $15 beginning July 5 at all of its locations including at the two Hayward stores. However, the Hayward City Council has already mandated a $15-an-hour minimum wage, approving the increase on April 14.

California's minimum wage is currently $13 for large companies, such as Target. It will not advance to $15 until 2022.

The two Hayward stores:

  • 19661 Hesperian Blvd, Hayward, CA 94541-4200

  • 2499 Whipple Rd, Hayward, CA 94544-7807

Additional bonuses are coming, too. The stores will give a one-time $200 bonus to employees for working throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Target said that with the pay announced Thursday, it will invest nearly $1 billion more this year than it did in 2019, including increased wages, paid leaves, bonus payouts, personal protective equipment and a donation to the Target Team Member Giving Fund.

“In the best of times, our team brings incredible energy and empathy to our work; and in harder times, they bring those qualities plus extraordinary resilience and agility to keep Target on the forefront of meeting the changing needs of our guests and our business year after year,” Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO of Target Corp., said in a release. “Everything we aspire to do and be as a company builds on the central role our team members play in our strategy, their dedication to our purpose and the connection they create with our guests and communities.”

The one-time $200 recognition bonus will be distributed at the end of July to eligible full-time and part-time hourly team members at stores and distribution centers, the company said. That is on top of bonuses of $250 to $1,500 paid in April to 20,000 hourly store team leads who oversee individual departments in Target stores.

Target granted a $2-per-hour temporary pay increase in March, which was extended twice, the company said.

— Patch editors Todd Richissin and Bea Karnes contributed to this story

This article originally appeared on the Castro Valley Patch