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Business
Maria Halkias

Walmart dangles a $210,000 average salary to store manager recruits

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — This may be a good year to get recruited and promoted at Walmart.

Walmart executives said at the company’s annual meeting Thursday that it has launched a pilot program to give college graduates and those graduating within a year, including Walmart employees, a jump-start into management.

Through the College2Career program, they’re offered a job as an “emerging coach” with a starting salary of at least $65,000 a year. These positions come with the potential to move into store management in as little as two years and into a six-figure salary.

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